Covid today Italy, Crisanti: “We will reach 20 thousand infections a day”

“Italy will reach 20 thousand infections a day”. This is the scenario that Professor Andrea Crisanti, director of the departments of microbiology and virology of the University of Padua, outlines at Otto e mezzo on La7. “England has a very simple situation: vaccinated 75% of the population and has no restrictions of any kind. There is a balance between the ability of the virus to transmit itself and that of the vaccine to block it, the balance is fixed at about 40 thousand cases and 160 deaths a day “, says Crisanti. “In Italy there are additional containment measures – such as masks, green passes and tampons – which have an impact on transmission. I believe that in Italy we will reach a balance at a lower level, around 20 thousand infections a day by relying on the vaccine, on distancing, the use of masks: this would already be a success “, he continues.” The only thing to do is to speed up with the third doses, instead it seems to me that we lose sight of the problem. We talk about no vax, but the real the battle is on the third doses. We have vaccinated about 86% of the population, we could reach 90%: beyond a certain limit we cannot go “, he continues. “We have 44 million people who have been vaccinated twice and who are probably willing to get vaccinated a third time, this is the battle to be fought. It is known from June-July that vaccines would start to lose their effectiveness after 6 months,” he says. still.