“The vaccine is an ethical option,” says Pope Francis. “Because you are betting on your health, on your life, but also on the lives of others.”
The interview will air this Saturday night, on Tg5.
In conversation with Vatican expert, Fabio Marchese Ragona, the pope announces that he will take the vaccine against Covid-19. “Next week”, he says. “We are going to start doing it (vaccination) here in Vatican and I’ve already marked it, it has to be done”, he said.
Polio crisis
In the interview, the pope highlighted: “When I was a child I remember there was the polio crisis, and many children were paralyzed by that and there was desperation to get the vaccine. When the vaccine came out, they gave it to you, with sugar. We grew up in the shadow of vaccines, for measles, for this, for that other. I don't know why someone says the vaccine is dangerous. But if doctors present it as something that can be good, that has no special dangers, why not take it? There is a suicidal denial I don’t know how to explain it, but today we have to get the vaccine.”
From abortion to the Capitol, the topics of the interview
According to a Mediaset call, in the interview held at the Santa Marta residence in the Vatican, the pope addressed several topics, including: the pandemic, the vaccine, abortion and about last week's crisis in the United States.
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