Covid Italy, Garattini: “Delta variant pushes infections”

European effect or inevitable Delta variant effect? “Beyond what affects the increase in cases that is also observed in Italy, if we all vaccinated there would be no more contagion”. This is the warning from Silvio Garattini, president of the Mario Negri Irccs Institute of Pharmacological Research. The expert looks at the data of the rising infections and the question whether the crowds celebrating Italy’s victory in the Europeans could have acted as a detonator replies that, beyond this, “also the Delta variant” of Sars-CoV -2 “pushes” up the counter, being a variant “apparently very contagious” that “spreads very quickly, although apparently in vaccinated it has no serious consequences”, highlights Adnkronos Health. Garattini’s invitation is therefore clear: “Don’t delay” and get the vaccine. “A very important point to understand is that if we all vaccinated we could directly avoid the problem.” Then have a second generation monoclonal anti-Covid antibody, like the Italian one in phase II and III of experimentation, which from the studies promises to neutralize all the variants of Sars-CoV-2, “is a very important remedy. We are all looking forward to seeing results. If we could have an effective drug it would be the right vaccine supplement, because we would have a” therapeutic to treat “option. even cases that “occur in people who” cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or cases affected by a variant that is perhaps not sensitive to the vaccine “” We hope that the results can arrive before the end of the year – concludes Garattini – and that they are good. It would be a nice contribution from Italy “to the fight against Covid.