Covid, return to greet each other by shaking hands? Experts divided

Return to greet each other by shaking hands? Experts are divided. To say enough with fists and elbows Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, relaunches the possibility of returning to greet each other with a handshake. “I have been shaking and giving my hand for 3 months, so I hope and hope that others will be able to do it again. Enough punches and elbows” that for the whole Covid pandemic have forced us at a distance from each other. “I see that President Draghi sometimes shakes his hand and sometimes punches, but he could resume the normal greeting we know, a symbol of contact, fraternity and equality,” Bassetti told Adnkronos. “There is a big paradox”, he observes: “We do not shake hands, but we do much worse things. We try to go back to the handshake or the hug.” “It is still early” to think about returning to greet each other by shaking hands, “let’s see how the situation is going”, the president of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss), Silvio Brusaferro, told Adnkronos Salute instead, today in Rome at margin of the presentation of the volume ‘Cancer numbers in Italy 20210’, illustrated at the ISS and promoted by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (Aiom), answering the question whether it is already possible to leave the fist or the elbow to greet us and return to handshake.