“Everyone should do it”

Pope Francis announced on Saturday that he would be vaccinated against the coronavirus “next week”, and denounced the “suicidal denial “of those who oppose to this remedy for the pandemic.

“Next week we will start doing it (getting vaccinated), I already have my appointment“, declared the Pope in an interview with Channel 5 of Italy which will be emitted tomorrow and of which extracts were advanced.

This claim by the Sovereign Pontiff was known shortly after the Vatican reported the death of his personal physician, Fabrizio Soccorsi, 78, hospitalized since December 26 for an oncological disease that it was complicated by a coronavirus infection.

“It has to be done“, insisted the Argentine pontiff, and launched:” There is a suicidal denial that I can not explain. “

“I believe that from an ethical point of view, everyone should be vaccinated, because you are endangering not only your health, your life, but also those of others, ”he explained in this interview.

He also recalled that “when he was little” there was a “polio epidemic, due to which many children were paralyzed and everyone was impatiently waiting for a vaccine (…) When the vaccine arrived, they l ‘administered with sugar,’ he recalled Pope Francis.

“Then we grew up in the shadow of vaccines, against measles, against that, against that … the vaccines that were given to children,” he added.

And he concluded: “I don’t know why some say ‘no, the vaccine is dangerous’, but if the doctors present it as something that can be good, that does not present special risks, why not do itAsked the pontiff.

With agency information.