Covid, Ricciardi: “I made no mistakes, Bill Gates was right”

“If I look back, objectively I don’t think I’ve made any mistakes. Does Bill Gates foresee a worse pandemic? He’s always got us.” Walter Ricciardi, professor of Hygiene at the Catholic University and scientific advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, at 24 Mattino on Radio 24, thus expresses himself in a 360-degree intervention on covid. Ricciardi, due to his rigid positions, has been considered a sort of ‘standard bearer of terror’ in the last 2 years. “It is the truth based on facts, for two years all over the world and also in Italy we have been grappling with this pandemic: this shows that I am not a standard bearer of terror, I am the suggestion of solutions based on scientific evidence that are not be followed so we are still in the pandemic. If I look back I do not seem to have made mistakes “, says Ricciardi. “When I said in October 2020 that Milan and Naples had to be closed I was not heard. Least of all when I said that a lockdown had to be made on February 14, 2021. I was attacked by everyone, the facts proved me right. We paid for these. errors with 70 thousand deaths. If we had made the lockdowns, these people would be alive “, he adds. In recent days, statements by Bill Gates who foresees a more serious pandemic than the current one have come to the fore. “Bill Gates has always caught us, he’s been warning since 2013: he did it in a speech Ted. His cover on Time in 2017 says exactly that, he predicted a pandemic. He wants to warn us, he wants to tell us, get ready. Everyone. those who tell the truth do not say it because they are hooligans but they say it because they want to try to avoid problems. Bill Gates has always taken us so far, “says Ricciardi. What is the current situation in Italy? “We are in a slowdown in growth, we hope to see the peak between the end of January and the beginning of February. We will have a good spring and probably an excellent summer but then the virus will circulate again because we chase it but not we anticipate him and then he returns to be heard “. Do we have to think about a heavy return in October? “Yes, it will be. This circle has been in existence for two years, in the hope that more dangerous variants will not arrive. The immunity that the vaccine gives us, which is a lifesaver, because it makes the difference between life and death between hospitalization and well-being, however, does not protect against the circulation of the virus, at least it does not protect completely. We must combine vaccination with other unpopular choices that, however, allow us to live in peace. Today we can do everything, but we must do it with a certain criterion. put out this great fire now and we must prevent it from starting again: in February-March we must resume tracing and isolating all the fires “. Omicron variant chapter: “Those who have the third dose have a cold or a mild flu, but this is not the case for the unvaccinated: for the latter it can be serious or very serious. Covid in Italy is currently the third cause of death after cardiovascular disease and cancer. We still have millions of unvaccinated people, this exposes these people to risk and exposes the community to the phenomenon of not being able to care for patients in hospital “.