Covid, Pregliasco: “Cases growth slows, August more serene”

“We notice the peak of the Covid case curve when it is passed. We are observing a slowdown in the rate of growth of new cases which indicates the possibility that the peak of infections is near”. Thus the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor of Hygiene at the State University of Milan and health director of Irccs Galeazzi, at Adnkronos Salute takes stock of the Covid situation in Italy. Yesterday 103 thousand cases, on 14 July 108 thousand and on 13 July 111 thousand. And on a more serene August? “It is possible, we could go better as long as a new variant does not arrive that can change the cards on the table”, replies Pregliasco. The expert then points out that “the narrative that Sars-CoV-2 would disappear with the summer and the heat is wrong. During the summer there are no temperature changes and there is also no indoor stay that increases the probability of infection. Then with a variant like Omicron that also dodges the immune response we had an enormous spread of the virus even in the heat. It could become a seasonal virus with time and stabilization. I remember that the wave of the H1N1 flu virus of 2009 came in summer. Sars-CoV-2 is a totally new virus. “