Covid, Pregliasco: “Contagions and deaths will increase, clouds on the horizon”

Coronavirus infections and deaths will increase. The virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan, says this to Adnkronos Health, commenting on the draft of the weekly monitoring Iss-Ministry of Health on the trend of Covid-19 which sees the Rt index at a national level in strong growth at 1.57. “Certainly – he explains – there are clouds on the horizon of the holidays. As expected we are witnessing the film that other countries have already seen. It is destiny, increasing social life and contacts with the new variant, which has the same contagiousness as chicken pox. , that what we are seeing happens “. “Unfortunately it will be nothing more than a continuous increase. I hope – says Pregliasco – that there is this continuous effectiveness of vaccination that allows us to mitigate, that we stop a little. Unfortunately, however, we will see serious cases and will only increase. I also hope here – the doctor recommends – in the systematic application of monoclonal antibodies that have given us good results to treat patients in the best possible way and in the best conditions, however – he warns – let’s get ready for a still not civilized coexistence with the virus. the cases will increase and then accumulating, which we gradually know are accumulating, the deaths that we know always arrive at a stage following the disease will also arrive “. “The bet for the near future – concludes the virologist – is certainly that of keeping a track, but it is not easy. It is a great common sense in behavior. We are in a fourth wave that exists and which we hope is a tail blow, however it also depends on us, it is not only the virus that is bad “.