Covid, Bassetti: “60 thousand infections a day means nothing”

“In Italy we continue to get the communication wrong about Covid. This continuous terrorism every day on cases and tampons, for a form of Covid that today is less than a flu, does not benefit anyone and will not help in the autumn. Having 60 thousand cases at the day does not mean anything. Omicron 5 is different from the virus of 2 years ago, who has Omicron does not suffer from pneumonia, but does everything else “. Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, highlights this at Adnkronos Salute, taking stock of the epidemiological situation that sees an increase in the positive curve. Read also “It is clear that updated vaccines are needed for September – he adds – but we also need to communicate better. Up to now, communication has been a disaster. We must say that Omicron 5 is different, that vaccines have worked a lot and that we will have more need for the frail and the elderly “. Bassetti also spoke of the flu that “will return and raise its head in the autumn, I agree with the Osservatorioinfluenza”. “It’s been 3 years that we have somehow not faced it and antibodies that have not seen a virus for 3 years are less strong, they are ‘soldiers’ with blunt weapons – underlined the expert – So we must focus on the vaccination campaign against the flu, especially for the categories at risk. But knowing full well that the vaccine, as much as it can, reaches 50% efficacy “. According to the Osservatorioinfluenza, in the autumn the flu will return overwhelming and will try to supplant Covid: “The data from the Southern hemisphere indicate what we should expect from the 2022-2023 epidemic”.