Europeans, Pregliasco: “With celebrations we pushed Rt up”

In the aftermath of the celebrations in the square for Italy’s victory at the European football championships, the spotlight is on coronavirus infections. “The rising RT is a destiny and certainly with everything we have done with the Europeans we have given it a facilitation, because in all those gatherings it is clear that there was a number of asymptomatic young people who went around to celebrate “says virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan. The increase in infections, he observes, “is something that would have happened anyway, but certainly helping her like this was not the best. Yesterday I also went to see what was happening in the center of Rho and it was a disaster. there is such a massive situation – admits Pregliasco – you can’t stop it, you create more damage immediately than anything else “. To calculate the impact “we will have to wait the usual 15 days. Unfortunately – warns the virologist – we must certainly take a tail blow into account and it could be closer than I thought. Hopefully not in August. But let’s certainly prepare for this scenario. not pleasant. The risk is there “.