Covid, Vaia: “We are slaughtering the virus”

“The whole country is making great strides. Son and Draghi are working in the right direction, I am convinced that we are massacring this virus”. Francesco Vaia, director of Spallanzani, expresses himself in this way on Domenica In on the covid emergency. “The Spallanzani has a number of hospitalized just over 100 and in intensive care just over 20. If compared to the numbers of November and December of last year, with over 200 hospitalizations and 70 in intensive care we understand well how we are in a extremely comforting phase “, he adds.” I am satisfied that things are going well in spite of the many owls that are behind the door saying that everything will be wrong, “he points out. As for the variants, Vaia reassures: “We have found many benign ones, including the Indian and South African ones, which have not given an increase in either contagiousness or mortality.” Vaccine chapter: “All those we have in the field now are useful and sufficient to prevent us from having serious illness, mortality and hospitalization. There are no series A and series B vaccines, this ranking was determined by the stammering of the regulatory authorities and by some sudden intervention, even in Europe, of those who he said ‘we will not buy the vaccine anymore’ “without specifying that there were contractual problems. He then reiterates: “Vaccines are all good for the purpose of preventing contagion, serious illness and mortality. It is now proven, these vaccines cover the variants”.