In one week, COVID-19 mortality further increased by 24% with a year-on-year projection of more than 15 thousand deaths. However, only 7 percent of those over the age of 70 have been vaccinated against COVID-19, and among the frail sick, the rates are even lower. The President of the Federation of Oncologists, Cardiologists and Hematologists, Francesco Cognetti, is very concerned. "Despite the fact that there are as many as 7.5 million doses that have already been available for about two months and many more on the way, throughout Italy vaccinations have been only about one million, with the southern regions and Lazio registering very low numbers," adds Cognetti, according to whom "the causes of these unsuccessful results are the complete absence of an information campaign on the need for mass vaccination". Cognetti also points the finger at "the dissemination, unfortunately also by some health authorities in the country, of confusing and often contradictory messages about the size of the contagion and its lethality, thus having the effect of further demotivating and discouraging an already partially reluctant population”.