The Italian regions are preparing to reopen the hubs to restart with the new phase of the vaccination campaign . In fact, starting from next week, the audience to be subjected to the fourth dose of vaccine is already being widened: the green light of the EMA and the subsequent authorization of Aifa and the Ministry of Health are expected shortly to administer the second booster to all over 60 .
With the arrival of updated vaccines, expected in the autumn, an increase in requests is also estimated. For this reason we are already thinking about the reopening of the centers closed in recent months and to strengthen those that have never stopped.
With rapidly rising incidence and hospitalizations, an Rt index of 1.4 , well above the epidemic threshold, the virus returned to bite in the height of summer.
And vaccines continue to prove to be the best defense against severe disease and mortality, protecting vaccinees with boosters up to 7 times more than no vaxes .
"The epidemic is in an acute and expansive phase", underlines Patrizio Pezzotti, director of the epidemiology department of the ISS.
According to forecasts, the curve should reach its peak in about ten days , but the growth of hospitalizations will last longer, and also that of deaths, on which we are now at an average of 90 per day, explains the mathematician Giovanni Sebastiani.
But the Regions are pressing to lighten the rules on quarantine, even the Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa agrees: “Let's listen carefully. I am among those who are asking the problem that we will reach a point where we will no longer have to isolate the asymptomatic positives, otherwise we risk blocking the country again. An asymptomatic positive can go to work with the mask , we have to ask ourselves this question ".
(Unioneonline / L)
