Crisanti: “A singing course for Christmas …”

“What would I like under the Christmas tree? A singing course”. The first response of the virologist Andrea Crisanti is a joke, in reference to the controversy that has been unleashed on the song ‘Sì Sì vax’ (video), interpreted on the notes of Jingle bells together with colleagues Matteo Bassetti and Fabrizio Pregliasco for the transmission ‘Un giorno da pecora ‘on Rai Radio 1. The director of the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padua explained that he had done it to launch a message about vaccination that would also reach children with lighter tones and admitted that he did not like to exercise his skills singing. Hence the desire to be able to unwrap a gift and discover in it “a good singing lesson”, he smiles. But in reality the expert’s true Christmas wish is more ambitious and less affordable than a course for golden uvula. “I dream of a worry-free holiday – he tells Adnkronos Salute – Without Covid. A life without Covid”. Almost a mirage with Omicron running, the one expressed by Crisanti: “I have never gone to a tropical country. I would like to go there and forget the telephone, thoughts, absolutely everything. But in the contingency a singing lesson would be useful”.