Covid Italia, Pregliasco: “New peak possible in September”

“This hypothesis exists”. Thus the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan on the risk of a new peak of infections in September as is happening today in Great Britain. “From a general point of view – explains Pregliasco – what we see in the United Kingdom is the presence of the Indian variant, which we could also have; the choice to slow down the second dose to give more boost to vaccination, which we are also doing. if in a slightly more mediated way. And therefore the openings can give this element. I have always – remember – I say we open carefully. We still have a reservoir of half a million positives – underlines the virologist – or people who can infect others in various forms and with varying intensity. Fortunately, what we see in England and which in my opinion we can achieve even here – says Pregliasco – is not having a large number of serious cases thanks to the vaccination of fragile subjects. it is the vaccine that could make us safe “. So what happened in an England with a very high percentage of vaccinated at least with the first dose? “The Indian variant – clarifies the virologist – has ‘punctured’ the first dose” which does not protect like the complete vaccine. AstraZeneca “For the AstraZeneca vaccine it could be useful to evaluate a limitation from 50 years upwards for women and from 40 years old on for men as a prospective element “the virologist told Adnkronos Salute, commenting on the case of the two young women hospitalized in Genoa, after vaccination with AstraZeneca. “But it must be decided by AIFA so that it is official. An indication or a communication is not enough”. In specific cases “it is a question of investigating and verifying what happened. It is necessary to see – says Pregliasco – whether it is actually cases with clots and low levels of platelets. To date – concludes the virologist – there are 6 cases per million people” severe reactions to the vaccine.