Bassetti: “Omicron 4 and 5? Let’s end it with terrorism variants”

“Let’s stop with this terrorism of variants, let’s stop spreading information that must concern the scientific world and instead reach people before scientists”. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, comments on the discovery of Omicron’s new ‘sisters’, renamed Omicron 4 and 5, on which the WHO expressed itself in the latest bulletin weekly. Those detected by the WHO “are technical information that should first be examined and discussed in the scientific community and not thrown into the food of people who do not have the means to understand them well – remarks Bassetti -. I do not worry now about the variants as I do not. done before: the variants have taught us that they are no longer aggressive, but more contagious and then these are sub-variants of Omicron “. Bassetti does not spare a jab at the WHO. “Perhaps the WHO, rather than making a statement on variants of which little is known, should intervene on what is happening in China – reiterates the infectious disease specialist -. There are human rights suppressed to contain irrepressible variants. WHO should take action. examination of conscience, it is losing credibility on the part of the population, but also of the scientific community. Today we need to give certainties and not throw away that these variants could evade immunity. It is scandalous – he concludes – what WHO is not doing on what is happening in China where human rights are being trampled on. I no longer recognize myself in the WHO “.