Covid Italy, Galli: “Increase in cases is not surprising but wave will do less damage”

The increase in Covid cases, albeit this week with a slowdown in growth, according to the latest Gimbe data, along with a higher percentage of hospitalizations, ICUs and deaths “is not surprising. It was a predictable event at this time of year. with the circulation of the variants in progress and with the opening of all activities. We hope that it will be a small wave and not a big wave but there are conditions for it to do less damage than in the past “. Massimo Galli, former director of the infectious diseases department of the Sacco hospital in Milan, told Adnkronos Health. “We have reasons to be optimistic – he continues – taking into account that we are faced with a reality in which there have been over 22 million confirmed infections, which if they do not correspond exactly to the people, considering the reinfections, however we must also add many infections that have never been declared. . So – observes Galli – we are faced with a reality in which a large number of people have encountered the virus. And it is therefore likely that people are better protected from serious infection “. Not to mention the vaccinations made. “So I don’t think that the current wave can have the scope of those we have already experienced”, he concludes.