Covid and the end of the pandemic in March? Galli: “Caution”

“End of the pandemic? Caution, I don’t feel like coming out with optimistic proclamations”. These are the words of Professor Massimo Galli in connection with ‘L’Aria che tira’ on La7. “With this variant there are many infections that are not registered and they are really many. The decline in hospitalizations in intensive care is starting to be comforting. There remains the element of the numerous deaths that we would all like to understand, but in this country it is not sequenced enough. It remains to be seen how much they are from Delta and how much from Omicron. Probably the deaths are from Delta, but we are not sure. We have always seen that several days pass between hospitalization and death, so those who lose their lives now entered the hospital a long time ago “. To act as a litmus test will be to understand, he explains, whether “Omicron 2 will be the last variant or not”. “The virus affects the whole world and many areas of the globe are not vaccinated enough, if the mutations go in the direction of ‘hurray’ attenuation, but it is more likely or just as likely that they go in another direction.” As for the hypothesis of removing the masks outdoors and saying goodbye to the Green Pass in spring, Galli comments: “Situations already seen, we need caution”. “As for the mask outside, I have always maintained that it is necessary when you are in a place crowded with people, even outdoors. My idea is that the Ffp2 is necessary indoors, outdoors I have always supported a mask, surgical o Ffp2, in your availability “. Tomorrow the 100 euro fine will be imposed for non-vaccinated people over 50. “It is a strong incentive for those who do not get vaccinated in an unjustified way” underlines Prof. Galli. “I have just finished writing a proposal for a temporary exemption for a person, who by the way is not covered by antibodies, who after the first vaccination has had a series of clinical manifestations, which it is absolutely not clear where they come from. Now , they could also be unconnected, but also yes due to a series of similarities with other observed situations. I believe that doctors should evaluate, with caution and attention, those situations in which not being vaccinated has a clinical justification “. One last question, then, to which Prof. Galli responds as a citizen. “Mattarella? Thank goodness there is, even though I am perfectly aware that a policy that fails to express a new President of the Republic in a person deserving to be one, after all these events, is not a policy that has given a good sign of himself “.