Covid model China, Lopalco: “New wave resulting from bad choices”

“The new wave of Covid in China is the result of bad choices. The country has pursued the so-called zero-Covid policy from the beginning, that is, massive interventions of isolation, quarantines and lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus” but “this type health policy may make sense for a short time, that is to stem the emergency and give the health system time to equip itself with more effective therapies and, above all, with vaccination. Unfortunately, the vaccination campaign in China did not work due to the very low efficacy of the vaccines used “. Thus the epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco, professor of hygiene at the University of Salento, analyzing, for Adnkronos Salute, China’s ‘strong’ response – as shown by the images of forced confinements from Shanghai – to the new pandemic wave. “China therefore – continues Lopalco – found itself facing the Omicron wave having the population completely uncovered from an immune point of view. The consequences are there for all to see: it is as if, for them, the pandemic had begun now. To this it must be added that the coercive methods that are being used in Shanghai are not only reprehensible in terms of human rights, but also useless after all because they do nothing but re-enact a control strategy that has proved to be unsuccessful “.