Health Undersecretary Marcello
Gemmato sought to defuse a row he sparked by saying there was no
evidence the COVID pandemic would have been worse without
vaccines by stating that vaccines were "precious weapons in the
fight against the virus" and that his words had been taken out
of context.
"Vaccines are precious weapons against COVID, my words
decontextualized and subject to easy exploitation", said Gemmato
said following the controversy over his statements regarding the
effectiveness of vaccines.
"I am amazed by the exploitation that the opposition is mounting
in these last hours regarding some of my statements made
yesterday to the Re Start programme of Rai 2 (on state
broadcaster Rai).
I have always supported the validity of vaccines and the ability
they have to protect especially the most fragile," he said in a
statement.
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