Vaccines averted 150,000 deaths
during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, the head of the national
federation of medical guilds said after Health Undersecretary
Marcello Gemmato appeared to question their efficacy on Tuesday.
Gemmato disputed the fact that the pandemic would have been
worse without vaccines, only to walk back his statements by
saying vaccines were precious and he had been taken out of
context.
"Vaccines are fundamental: just today Premier Giorgia Meloni
recalled their importance," the president of the National
Federation of Medical Guilds, Filippo Anelli, said in an
interview to ANSA.
"According to calculations made by the Higher Health Institute
(ISS), the vaccination campaign has averted 150,000 deaths in
Italy.
"The Lancet, indeed, proved that the deaths averted in the world
in a year were twenty million".
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