00:00Professor, yesterday Minister Schillaci announced that the first bulletin on respiratory viruses will be released in about a week and
00:07too late?
00:08Well, I mean, it seems like last year's vaccination campaign that the commercial was made the first week
00:14of December.
00:15As far as the flu is concerned, you need to have a report that lasts all year round, because the flu really strikes.
00:22more so in the winter months,
00:25but in reality a bulletin of infections, both for influenza and for other diseases
00:32infectious,
00:32It should always be foreseen. I hope that now a solution has been found and that we can move in the right direction.
00:39to have a continuous bulletin too.
00:42On the other hand, we are famous in the world for not having numbers of anything, not only of infections, but in
00:49In general, this is also linked to the fragmentation of regional health systems.
00:54Everyone goes their own way and therefore it is difficult to have a global figure.
00:58What kind of flu season awaits us?
01:01Bad, because it started with a bang, already this November.
01:08It will be a flu season with perhaps lower numbers than in previous years, but with more serious cases.
01:14So there will be more people ending up in the hospital, more people getting pneumonia.
01:18All this could be avoided, I won't say because avoid is a big word, but it certainly aims at it through an access
01:25different from vaccination.
01:27We are still a country where one in five Italians gets vaccinated, 50% of the risk categories,
01:35that is, we are talking about the elderly, we are talking about the immunosuppressed and above all there is low vaccination prevention among healthcare workers.
01:43One in five healthcare workers does not get vaccinated and four out of five does not get vaccinated.
01:48Really really difficult numbers because people rightly say, but if you don't vaccinate yourselves first and don't give
01:55the example of why we should get vaccinated.
01:58This is a consideration that I invite all health workers to make, unfortunately they ignore this which in my opinion should be
02:06a duty,
02:07first of all, even before the effects a duty because it is clear that we should give at least on this
02:16the good example.
