Bassetti: “Calls from stalkers, they say ‘we’ll come and get you'”

“Also tonight I received phone calls from people I call stalkers. This morning I received a message saying: ‘We will come and get you’. The tenor is always the same, they call me a thief and a thief.” So Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Policlinico di Genova to the microphones of iNews24.it, commenting on the threats and messages he is continuing to receive from no vax and no green pass. “Acting chief prosecutor Francesco Pinto of Genoa has shown that he is absolutely on the side of the protection of justice – he underlines -. We hope that the judiciary will soon take its course and that these people can be denounced and tried quickly, with penalties commensurate with the crimes committed. The Prosecutor has all the necessary elements in hand. “As for the covid situation in Italy,” the peak of infections was reached about two weeks ago. Yesterday there was no significant increase in intensive care and we are going through a stabilization phase. In my department from Monday we could also return Covid-free, after a fairly heavy period. The summer wave is running out and the number of deaths is contained. Of course, the maximum would be tending to zero. If the numbers if these remain, and it will not be so, we would arrive at around 7-12 thousand deaths a year. There are too many, but they are no longer the 1,000 per day of a few months ago “. “All this – he continues – is a sign that vaccines have allowed us to obtain the desired safety net. Now is the time to understand what will happen in twenty days”. As for the Mu variant, “Whoever has done classical studies calls it Me and comes from South America – he says -. At the moment we know it could be resistant to vaccines. But we also said the same thing when the Delta variant arrived, so I wouldn’t be alarmed. We will see what happens on the pitch. Up to now, vaccines have worked on all variants. The prevalence of MI in the world is currently 0.1%, we must monitor it and be careful. But there is a fact: this variant developed in Colombia and Ecuador, where few vaccines have been made “. On the school front,” removing the masks in the classroom, a first phase would not be prudent, but we must get there. ” . “With more and more vaccinated people in schools and in the workplace, we are moving towards this goal – he underlines -. In a few months we will be able to remove them in the classroom as well, also because it would be hypocritical to think that children wear masks continuously for six hours, especially since outdoors is not mandatory. The students who enter the class, an hour earlier, have been out together. We may even get to the point that wearing them will no longer be required by law, but a choice of protection. The Chinese have been using them for thirty ‘ years and they are not obliged “. When asked whether or not he is in favor of compulsory vaccination, the infectious disease specialist replies:” We should ask the politicians. As a doctor, I reply that as many people as possible must be vaccinated. With the Delta variant there is no herd immunity, so we should strive towards full vaccination coverage. How to achieve this goal is not my responsibility, because it is not my job. The decision rests with politics, which I think has been expressed in a strong way “. Bassetti is not worried about the multisystemic inflammatory syndrome that would be caused by the Pfizer vaccine and which is being examined by the EMA these days: “It is a very rare phenomenon that can be triggered by vaccination. But I still think the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks. My family and I got vaccinated without too many problems. I want people to ask themselves the same questions every time they take a fever medication or after going to play soccer or because they drank too much the night before. We Italians are the ones who use more self-prescription drugs. Are there the same doubts for all medicines? ”He says.