In the last week "the curve has started to go down again. We hope that now with the good weather the situation will improve further as we have seen in previous years". These are the words of Nino Cartabellotta , president of the Gimbe Foundation , who spoke to the microphones of the program "Italy has awakened" on Radio Cusano Campus.
Cartabellotta specifies that "this is a virus that not only affects the respiratory system, the fact that there is also Long Covid means that it is better not to take it than to take it, even when you are vaccinated and your life is less likely".
Great attention, according to the president of the Gimbe Foundation , will have to be placed next autumn-winter, "the testing ground for a number of reasons".
"There are 8 million people without a booster dose - continues Cartabellotta - and we don't know what kind of variant we will be dealing with. On the fourth doses, something is starting to move but the numbers are really very low".
According to Cartabellotta it should become common practice to use "direct calls". As for the fourth dose for everyone "at the moment no one can say, we have to wait for the data ".
As for the continuation of the obligation to wear a mask in some high-risk indoor places "it is absolutely in line with scientific evidence ", explains Cartabellotta. “Then there are other places considered intermediate risk where a recommendation has remained. What is important to reiterate is that, for the purposes of spreading Covid , the data that matter are the number of people who are in a room, the size of the room, the ventilation and the time spent ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
