Long Covid, Bassetti: “In 2022 post-illness milder thanks to vaccines”

“The devastating effects of Covid that we saw in 2020, pulmonary fibrosis with those forms of post-disease neuritis that lasted for months, are no longer seen today. There are milder forms. Basically, if long Covid and post Covid is to have for a few months a little tired, we find this with many other infectious diseases: from mononucleosis to herpes or with Lyme disease. It is good news and it is thanks to vaccines that in 2022 we see fewer long-term effects of the disease. hence the post-Covid terrorism “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa. “Obviously, if someone is infected without being vaccinated and perhaps has an aggressive form, it can have post Covid effects as in 2020-21. It is the vaccine that mitigates the effects after having had the disease”, clarifies the infectious disease specialist. “Any infectious disease can leave behind, but we should not be surprised because it has always happened. The important thing – adds Bassetti – is that they are not perennial. But the forms we saw of post Covid before the arrival of the vaccine today are really milder. There are still cases of long Covid, but I would like it to be investigated because there could be correlations with other problems. Today – he concludes – the post Covid is a decidedly minor problem “.