Covid, Bassetti: “Omicron will hit everyone by summer, a vaccine every year”

“We are coming out of the fourth wave” by covid. “We’ll have to get vaccinated once a year. The Omicron variant will hit everyone by summer.” Professor Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, thus expresses himself on the picture of the covid epidemic driven by the Omicron variant and on future prospects. “The most important indicator is that of admissions to intensive care. If we look at the admissions in the last week, over five days, for three we had the minus sign”, he tells ‘Non Stop News’, on Rtl 102.5, underlining how we is “a high circulation of the virus in Italy” and how “Omicron is completely taking the stage. Today Delta – he argues – represents a small part of the cases.” “I don’t think there is anything wrong with getting vaccinated once a year . If we have an evolved vaccine, which covers Omicron, we will have to vaccinate ourselves once a year. If they tell us that for the first two we will have to vaccinate twice a year, I see nothing wrong “, he adds.” Omicron – observes it is more contagious but less aggressive. It will strike everyone by the beginning of the summer: the unvaccinated will have to deal with it. By the end of winter-early spring we will undoubtedly have herd immunity. Both vaccination and natural immunity (after healing) are able to defend us from forms severe. Then, even if we get infected twice a year (with flu symptoms), I don’t think it’s a problem. The risk remains for those who end up in hospital “, he says again.