Pregliasco: “Covid tail blow, possible red micro zones”

“We are witnessing a tailback” of the coronavirus in Italy, “with small, not very heavy, increases in cases, but I believe that the prudent Italian approach, made up of precautionary measures and vaccinations, seems to be paying off”. What future scenario should we expect? “There could be some surgical red micro-zones following the increase in Covid-19 infections, but I think lockdown hypotheses are a remote last resort”. So at Adnkronos Salute, Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist of the University of Milan, comments on the latest epidemiological data that see some parameters on the rise. However, Pregliasco says he is “confident that if new dangerous variants do not emerge and we remain cautious, with everyone’s responsibility, we can ‘override’ next winter which – he stresses – I hope is the last battle. Then there will be a coexistence with the virus. But the past scenarios – he observes – are certainly not re-proposed, thanks to a series of factors, first of all the vaccination campaign and the attitude of prudence adopted up to now. Just think – he points out – that even in England where the data are very high, the proportion of deaths is extremely lower than in the past: this gives us good hope that we will be able to assist people who fall ill without stressing the national health service “.” As I always say – recalls the virologist – the pandemic travels with waves like those of the stone of a pond: the first were the worst, now with the cold climate and the fact that we will be much more indoors, that the schools have reopened and we have returned to work or in the presence, there is a rising wave but these undulations are manageable, so far we have made it, we continue to keep the attention high “, he concludes.