«Unfortunately I took another swab and it came back very positive».

Stash of The Kolors announced on Instagram, from his bed at home, that he has Covid: " I can't taste or smell anything anymore," he explains, "it's a sensation I've had before, and it's incredibly annoying. All that cortisone I took didn't help; it was just like throwing gasoline on the fire. I just have to wait for it to pass."

The singer and the band have canceled two concerts scheduled for the next few days in Sicily, in Messina and Gela: "It's a bad and frustrating feeling because there were thousands of people waiting for us at the concert. I really hope to be able to give you good news soon . We're talking to the organizers who are trying to figure out how to reschedule the dates."

" Many people ask me in my messages not to write Covid and call it the flu ," he continues. "I never said it, but during the pandemic , I was in the hospital on oxygen and scared to death. Today, we have more tools to defeat it, but forgive me, I can't forget what I went through. If I test positive, if I have to take a plane, I can't help but protect myself and others. Maybe there's an eighty-year-old woman who wants to hug you, and that hug could be lethal for her. It's respect for others ."

While media attention is rightly focused on mosquito-borne viruses and political controversy has targeted vaccines, Stash, the young frontman of The Kolors, posts his positive COVID-19 test . This is a good opportunity to remember that, unfortunately, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating and cannot simply be the subject of denial and hindsight revisions.

Gianni Rezza, an epidemiologist, professor of Hygiene at the San Raffaele University in Milan, and former head of the Prevention Department of the Ministry of Health and the Infectious Diseases Department of the ISS, comments on Stash's video as follows: "In fact," Rezza continues, "the COVID-19 epidemic curve, as reported by the ECDC, shows an increase in cases in several European countries in week 27 (in mid-July), even though the level of hospitalizations and deaths remains low (Luigi Vezzosi, a colleague from SITI Lombardia, confirms a certain trend in the incidence rate in his region as well)."

"Nothing dramatic," the epidemiologist points out, "but completely eliminating the problem may not be wise. SARS-COV-2 remains a capricious virus, with a seasonality that is not yet fully established. Although its Omicron variant (the circulating strains all belong to subvariants, lineages, or recombinant forms of Omicron) no longer primarily affects the lungs, the viral infection can still seriously threaten the health of the elderly (especially the very elderly) and other at-risk populations. In these populations, preventing its consequences, including through booster vaccinations, can be important."

(Unioneonline)

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