Covid, Remuzzi: “Science is not the Bible, there are no certainties”

“Science is not the Bible. If someone tells you they are certain, don’t believe them.” Professor Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri institute, expresses himself in this way to In Onda by answering questions on the covid epidemic, while the spotlights are turned on on the Omicron variant. In Italy “the curve is slowing down. The peak could be in a couple of weeks, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. There could be a plateau, now we have an increase in cases and hospitalizations, but the percentage increase is lower than that. We have a reasonable hope that in a couple of weeks things will at least start to stabilize, “he says. “It is a reasonable hope: if in this area someone tells you to have certainties, do not believe them. Science is not the Bible, we do not have a static situation. It is extremely dynamic, today I learned things that I did not know yesterday. Science It works like this. At the beginning many of us said that the virus does not change and instead it changes a lot. Initially it was said that heterologous vaccination would be a mess, now we know that the immune system response is much stronger “, he says again. Soon we start with the vaccination of children. “Children between the ages of 5 and 11 must be vaccinated, they risk nothing with the vaccine. Almost 5 million children have been vaccinated between the US, Cuba and Israel and there is no alarm”, he says. “It is very difficult to make predictions. , but I would say that this virus will stay with us for the next 2 years. It could cause damage to particularly fragile people, but it will become less and less dangerous and will become one of the coronaviruses we know “, he concludes.