Mascherine, Ciccozzi: “Too many people without the stadium, they must be used”

“With Omicron, ditching the mask indoors is not a good solution. And it is not even outdoors when there are many people, since the viral circulation has not disappeared and is high. Yesterday I saw the game at the stadium, the most of the people were crowded and did not have a mask. At this stage and with these variants it is not good. ” Massimo Ciccozzi, head of the Medical Statistics and Epidemiology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Bio-Medico Campus of Rome, underlines this to Adnkronos Health. “Let’s not forget the mask – he warns – because the vaccine has taken away the serious risks of the disease, but not the contagion. The mask is the only barrier that can help us in this.” Speaking of the situation in China, Ciccozzi recalls that the “country does not actually have many cases of Covid compared to us, but it wants ‘zero infections’, so the reference standards are different from ours. And they use the harshness we see. But today they are using the ‘iron fist’ with a completely different virus. Targeted strategies are in fact necessary against Omicron. If the lockdown had any effects with the Wuhan virus, with this variant in circulation, which infects at least 9 times more with symptoms lighter, even a tight lockdown does not have the same effect. So I do not know how much the suffering required of the citizens of Shanghai will be repaid “.” It is obvious that our health care is preferable – he stresses – We have made many mistakes and maybe we still continue to do them, for example with masks that should not be abandoned at this stage, but we are sure of what we do, compared to the knowledge we have. And we try to do it in the best possible way. possible way. The Chinese strategy seems to me to cut off the snake’s head without even trying to understand why the snake has come down to us “. The Chinese method had” an immediate effect at the beginning of the pandemic – admits the expert – Now, for obtaining the same result with this contagiousness will take a long time “.