Covid, Bassetti: “Less alarmism under the Christmas tree”

“Under the Christmas tree I hope to find a little less alarmism, fear and panic do not help.” Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Genoa, says this to Adnkronos Salute. “I hope not to find fear, with the Omicron variant we made the same mistakes as a year ago: terrorism, ‘flat’ vaccines and more deaths. Then it turned out to be useless. While instead we are witnessing a decrease in lethality and vaccines. they work “, adds Bassetti.” Well, I would no longer want to find the usual suspects who shoot the biggest one. While I would like to see many people who abandon the ideology and think more about the country and get vaccinated. And I would like Christmas to bring me the drugs to treat Covid and the new, more powerful second generation monoclonal antibodies “.