Variant Omicron Italy, Galli: “It does not kill vaccinated”

“The Omicron variant appears to have caused no particularly severe symptoms. If the vaccine is an umbrella with a few holes, I still use it when it rains.” Professor Massimo Galli thus answers, in L’aria che tira, the questions about the new Omicron variant. Pending more concrete data and elements, it seems that the variant produces mild symptoms in the infected. “We have been told that Omicron has 32 mutations and a dozen are located at the attachment point of our cells, which is why it has automatically become a disturbing variant, but it does not appear to kill vaccinated people. Symptoms seem mild but we need to. time to evaluate more data “, says Galli.” Maximum attention must be maintained, but there is no need to take excessively alarmist positions. It is not the variant that pierces everything, it could pierce in part. get vaccinated and the third dose should help us to secure the citizens. If the vaccine is an umbrella with a few holes, when it rains I use it anyway. If the vaccine is updated, we will take advantage of it when it becomes available, “he adds.