Covid, Minelli: “Caldo did not slow it down last year”

“I think it could legitimately be said that ‘in the summer the virus disappears’ only in the summer of 2020, when someone even managed to sentence that the epidemic was over. Already last year these times were recorded, compared to’ previous summer, tens of thousands more infections, with a further irrepressible exploit in the current year. This proves how much the new coronavirus pandemic is a truly multifactorial epidemiological and clinical event “. The immunologist Mauro Minelli, responsible for Southern Italy of the Foundation for personalized medicine, underlines this to Adnkronos Health, speaking on what is claimed by many experts, namely that Covid would disappear with the summer and the heat. “We arrived at summer 2020 after months of lockdown that could not have been harder than this – recalls the immunologist – schools closed, Dads for the whole year, ferocious and apparently unfair isolations with smart working everywhere, pure masks of night, drastic reduction of activities and transport with consequent reduction of all polluting elements some of which, according to a rich and ultra-referenced scientific production, would have had a very important role in favoring the Covid-19 contagion produced by the Sars Cov-2 “. “Today we only have a sad memory of all this, which we regularly strive to erase with concerts, stadiums, free masks and everything we read every day under the audacious headlines of ‘you can’t go back’. Right! men, there is no turning back because the country cannot be stopped and we cannot live indefinitely in a glass bubble. The problem, however, is that the virus has no sense and, at the moment, a conciliation seems rather complicated “, concludes Minelli.