Covid, Crisanti: “Close to herd immunity, balance achieved”

“We are very close to herd immunity and the trend of the epidemic says so because for months, despite the restriction measures are extremely mild, the number of cases has been more or less constant, with small daily fluctuations. Clearly the number of cases is the tip of the iceberg, the number of deaths is constant, unacceptable in my opinion, but this means that somehow the equilibrium situation has been reached “. So Andrea Crisanti, director of the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the University of Padua, guest of ‘Radio too’ on Rai Radio1. When asked for clarification on the ‘unacceptable number of dead’, Crisanti replies that in his opinion “we need to change the paradigm, moving from a strategy that limited the transmission of the virus to a strategy that protects the frail, without limiting their freedom”. An example in this regard is “the law, very wrong, which made fragile subjects return to work, which means, in a situation of high transmission of the virus, exposing them to conditions of risk. And – finally reminds Crisanti – the fragile are all people over 80 years old and those who have one or more pathological conditions that aggravate the course of Covid, therefore diabetes, hypertension and obesity, cancer patients, transplant patients and if we add them all together they are not few. All must be protected, because it is unacceptable to have 150 deaths a day, which is 50 thousand a year, and this brings us back to 1800 when infectious diseases were the major cause of death “.