Covid Italy, Nobel Parisi: “We risked 500 thousand deaths”

“From the beginning it was clear that Covid was a disease that could easily have caused more than half a million deaths in Italy, if the containment measures had not been in place”. This was underlined by the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics Giorgio Parisi, Sapienza University of Rome, who today received the third dose of vaccine at the Policlinico Umberto I. “The measures were sufficient to reduce deaths by an extremely high number, but they should have been continue for an unlimited period if there was no possibility to make vaccines. Vaccines stopped the growth of cases this summer due to the Delta variant “of Sars-CoV-2,” and have been crucial so to allow us a life that is becoming more and more normal “.” The third dose “of the anti-Covid vaccine” is essential for people who are particularly at risk in terms of both age and other diseases, so I do it gladly because it enormously strengthens the defenses of the first two doses, which despite being substantial are diminishing a bit with the passage of time. The fear of getting vaccinated is irrational “.