Covid, Bassetti: “Descent started, Omicron 2 in Italy is not a problem”

“We can say that the decline of the epidemiological curve of Covid-19 has begun. And in the next few weeks it could also be as fast as it has happened in other countries. The fact that Omicron 2 has been detected in Italy is not a problem and should not cause alarm because it is a ‘sister’ of the Omicron variant which we have seen to be very contagious but is not creating stress in hospitals. There will be variants because the history of viruses says so we must be careful and sequence “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of San Martino in Genoa, takes stock of the epidemiological situation. Read also The expert then talks about “a study by the Ligurian agency Alisa which determined that not getting vaccinated is like driving drunk without seat belts. This means that the vaccine protects us against serious illness and the risk of death but less against the Infection. Alisa’s study compared the relative risk between vaccinated and unvaccinated by comparing it with that of drunk driving without seat belts “.