Covid, Di Perri: “Numbers rise but well if with vaccine effect it will be one sixth compared to 2020”

“The numbers go up and up, we need to understand how much this protection will hold. Something jumps, there will be a minimum of pressure on the hospitals, but if we manage to have an effect equal to one sixth compared to last year it will be a target well achieved “. Thus the infectious disease specialist Giovanni Di Perri on the fourth wave of Covid, on the sidelines of his participation in the Healty Aging Week of the Ferrero Foundation. “Unfortunately – he observed – this vaccine does not have the effect of that against measles or antipolio, which give 100% protection. This is a vaccine in which we have to evaluate the gray scale, the relative benefits, the fact that we get infected but do not get sick “.” We are heading towards winter, we will see increases, but we are giving the third dose, I believe that in a few weeks we will also vaccinate the children between 5 and 12 years of age which in this phase represent about a third of the new cases, and this will be a further piece of this protective scheme. We will see, there is no option B, it seems to me that our country from the overall point of view is very well positioned “, he concluded.