Covid, Bassetti: “Fifth wave is over, it will be Easter as before the pandemic”

“We are preparing for the long Easter weekend with only one patient hospitalized with Covid, with no signs of illness. This fifth wave of hospital admissions that began last fall has now come to an end. The last wave is over, not the presence of the virus that it is now endemic. After two very sad Easters and with limited and supervised freedom, we are finally going to experience one like the others in 2019. A peaceful and Christian Easter “. So Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, on social media. This morning Bassetti had defined the measures that China is adopting in Shanghai to stem the spread of the covid a “real health dictatorship”. The images of the centers where thousands of people are isolated are bouncing on social networks. The city is in the throes of a severe lockdown. “I think the Chinese are making a huge mistake on a medical and scientific level. Aiming to zero covid with the Omicron variant is impossible. It is clear that there is also something different about health management. This is a real health dictatorship and the very serious mistake committed 35 years ago with HIV is being made. The stigma of the virus is being created, if you are positive you must be locked up in a structure that has nothing civil ”, he adds to Mattino 5.“ You see scenes that I hope will be condemned by our politicians. There is nothing scientific, it is just a display of strength ”.