Covid Italia, Andreoni: “Pneumonia increased, but light forms”

“There is a slight increase in Covid pneumonia in these weeks” of the rise in the contagion curve “but they are quite light forms, which resolve in a few days and very few patients need resuscitation”. So at Adnkronos Salute Massimo Andreoni, head of infectious disease at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome and scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit), taking stock of the situation of Covid hospitalizations. Read also “On average we find these pneumonia in elderly and frail subjects, even in vaccinated people, but today this is normal since we are now over 90% of Italians who are immunized and cured”, recalls Andreoni. On the growth of reinfections “the feeling is that the immunity given by the vaccine and by reinfection provides an excellent protective ‘booster’, let’s say that whoever is vaccinated and turns out to be positive has this small consolation “, concludes the head physician.