Bassetti: “Unvaccinated hospitalization in serious conditions, crazy country”

“In the hospital we have unvaccinated 50s and 60s who get seriously ill. People refuse the vaccine. This is a country of nuts.” This is the outburst of Professor Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious disease clinic of the San Martino polyclinic in Genoa. “We have hospitalized 10 people in the last few hours, they have gone from the emergency room to intensive care. The Delta variant is very dangerous for the unvaccinated. People discovered by vaccination, especially 50 and 60, have devastating situations. I just saw a CT scan: there is no part of the lung that breathes. This depends on the Delta variant, without the vaccine people crash, “he tells L’aria che tira. “We are in the middle of the fourth wave, do we want to realize it or do we want to continue combing the dolls? The emergency room is besieged by unvaccinated people. After 2 years we have the boxes full, we continue to hospitalize people who do not believe in existence This morning I had to review the Christmas shifts, I can’t send people on vacation. The hospital organization is upset because there are people who think the vaccine is bad for you. The vaccine saves lives. I come to work with the escort: I ask no vax, is it right? If it’s right, everything is valid, even shooting in the middle of the road “, says Bassetti. Compared to the Omicron variant, now in the spotlight, the greatest risk continues to be represented by the variant Delta. The Alpha variant allowed an infected person to infect 2-2.5 people. With the Delta variant this number rises to 8. With 6 million unvaccinated people, when the virus enters a group it ends up infecting everyone. Those who become infected with the Delta variant risk ending up in the hospital with the helmet and the tube. A year ago I was vaccinated and was envied by those who could not get vaccinated. Today there are people who do not want to get vaccinated: this is a country of madmen “, he concludes.