Reopening, Galli: “I talked about risks and instead Italy improves, carried out by vaccines”

“Mine is a pleased surprise because in Italy the numbers of the epidemic are clearly improving, beyond the rosiest expectations. With the reopening there was a 10% chance that things would follow this path, but in the end it is went well and I’m really happy about it “. Massimo Galli, director of infectious diseases at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, said in an interview with ‘Corriere della Sera’, underlining that “the vaccination campaign has brought about a turning point, which will not be temporary. Vaccines are acting as a shield for deaths and hospitalizations, have shifted the balance faster than I expected and the hoof of the vaccinated is growing further “. Galli spoke of ‘badly calculated risk’. “It’s true, but I’m a doctor, I rely on data – he underlines – not on opinions. When many dances began on April 26, the situation did not foreshadow that things would go so well. The numbers were not at all. reassuring, the infections and deaths were still high, it was not unlikely to think that there could have been a further growth in infections. We had not yet reached the promised threshold of 500,000 vaccines per day and the unknown dose persisted: we were not sure that those promises would really have been delivered “. Gallle notes that” immunization has worked better in our country than elsewhere, in proportion to the vaccines made. This is also due to the elderly and the frail who have made sure to expose themselves to virus”. As for the future, according to Galli, “we will have to learn to live” with the virus “, trying to contain it and in the meantime continue with the vaccination campaign. We do not have a complete solution to the problem, but we have a trend that makes the problem less severe. interference of the disease on our daily life and the prospect that the recovery is a concrete fact “. And about next autumn Galli says he is” optimistic. The virus, it is true, is still circulating a lot among the younger age groups, often completely asymptomatic and that for this reason they do not swab. But even among these categories the number of vaccinated people is increasing and will continue to grow. People are tired, in the summer they will take their liberty, but the vaccines are having such an impact that I do not think possible a new autumn wave comparable to the one we suffered last year. Unless we come across a new variant so bad, but I hope not, to evade the vaccine response. Today we know that vaccines can be updated quickly if necessary. “