“I hope for a peak of infections by the end of January. From how it rises, the curve does not allow for certain predictions ”.
This is the analysis of Massimo Galli, full professor of infectious diseases at the State University of Milan.
"Surely - explained Galli interviewed on Rai 3 - for a day or two we will have fewer tampons and, in percentage, more infected, because in these days of celebration only those who have symptoms or direct contacts with positives do them, but it changes little, because buffer or non-buffer, diffusion is a fact ".
"Realistically, I still expect growth for several days and I think this requires caution," added Galli.
The professor also commented on the current contagion situation in Italy: “We have a slice of the population that has had Covid but Omicron seems to pierce the immunity of the healed. I have seen several of people already infected with the virus, who contracted the new variant, which happened very rarely with other variants: previously we had 2-3 cases out of 1000 of reinfection, with Omicron it is more frequent, even if the healed in generally show a complex response to infection which is further augmented by the vaccine ".
Galli also said he was against the widespread reading that "this is a less serious variant and that 'if many become infected, this will be the effect of a vaccination', because it is not so", given that they can get reinfected. And then there is the problem, he added, that the more the virus "continues to circulate at this speed, the more new mutations are at risk".
"This - concluded Galli - where it leads I don't know. If it led to a cold it would be fine, but I'm not sure, just think of what happened in Brazil, where the great diffusion last year led to the birth of a new variant" .
(Unioneonline / lf)