Covid, Pregliasco: “Growth contagions to keep an eye on, reopening be prudent”

“By now these openings are expected, desired, desired, and cannot be postponed. I believe that they must be implemented with an eye to this situation” of growth of coronavirus infections “which is not only Italian, as we see from the latest WHO report, which highlights as increases of Covid cases have occurred in different regions, from Europe to the Western Pacific and Africa. I am not saying that it is necessary to slow down. But I would not do like England, which turned on the hot water tap all of a sudden as they wanted to do by political choice, a choice that suits us. But let’s do it with a ‘roadmap’ that says these are the steps to be confirmed on the basis of the epidemiological trend “. This is the vision of the virologist from the University of Milan, Fabrizio Pregliasco. “In Europe – he explains to Adnkronos Salute – Germany, France and the Netherlands have very high numbers, although for now there is no increase in deaths, given that it must be considered in a reflection on a possible choice to postpone some reopening in a function of the potential risk of an increase in deaths. This will be clearly seen in about ten days, given the delay with which the number of deaths moves with respect to infections “. Opening everything together, he continues, “is a possibility, because what has now been understood is that we will probably have an endemic trend of this virus, so we will have to live with it”. “In my opinion, however, we should proceed with common sense – he concludes – opening until the temperature is right, otherwise we will burn. With this metaphor of hot water I refer to the number of contacts. When the number of contacts opens, because we must know that every human contact has its own probability of causing an infection. What has been done as an attempt in Italy and Europe has been to mitigate and therefore reduce the amount of social interactions, to reduce the probability of infection. difficult political decisions. But we need to regulate the amount of contacts. If we open the tap completely, it is clear that we have a much faster rebound of cases and I believe that it is not worthwhile to implement it, while it is worth following that more prudent practice “.