Anti Covid pill in Italy, Pregliasco: “I think it’s coming for December”

The anti-Covid pills that Italy could decide to purchase for emergency pre-approval use represent “finally a real antiviral therapeutic strategy. By December I believe we should have them and they could prove to be useful weapons in countering this tailback that the virus he unleashed us. ” Thus the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan, at Adnkronos Salute. “Beyond the treatments that today are in fact symptomatic, because whatever people say cortisone, heparin and oxygen are symptomatic”, specifies the doctor, the two experimental oral medicines from Merck (MSD outside the US and Canada) and Pfizer represent “a new weapon that until now we did not have. The data” on efficacy and safety, “at least on reading, seem to be very interesting. As always, the importance of an early administration remains” and to understand one point well: ” of a replacement tool for vaccination – Pregliasco is keen to point out – They are intended as a complementary tool, to be used in cases where one becomes infected anyway “and can be administered at home. Therefore” together with vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, immunostimulants that are “, the two incoming pills” may contribute in some way to reduce the health impact of this coronavirus which – repeats the virologist – will have successive undulations also in the next f uturo “. PREGLIASCO With the fourth wave of Covid, Italy today risks a lockdown like that of Austria? “I hope not, but I am in the center of Milan for work and I see that unfortunately it seems to have returned to the past”, with too many risky behaviors that violate the prudential anti-Covid measures and that “certainly will not help”. The reference to Adnkronos Salute is to “respect the ‘new etiquette'” which means maintaining distance and wearing masks even outdoors in the event of a crowd,. And then “important and quick choices must be made”, is the message from the doctor to politics: “The Green pass must become more stringent”, he underlines, hoping that Italy will adopt the German model of the ‘2G’, that is, that the green certificate is valid only for the vaccinated and recovered, and not also for those who exhibit a negative buffer. “Continue with the revaccination – adds Pregliasco – but above all, I repeat, we respect the rules”.