Covid Italia, Remuzzi: “We know how to cure it but the third dose is needed”

“Covid is inflammation, the secret is to put it out in the bud. Today, various therapies are used successfully in Italian hospitals”. But I believe that all the elderly must take a third dose “. This was stated by Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Irccs Institute of Pharmacological Research, in an interview with ‘Libero’, explaining that for the treatment,” aspirin, nimesulide, celecoxib in generally guarantee an improvement in three to four days. If that’s not enough, we switch to cortisone and heparin. With anti-inflammatories Covid can be treated at home in the vast majority of cases “. We have a national protocol but does each hospital use its own unofficial therapy?” I repeat, the key is to stop inflammation, and there are many ways to do it “. . For example, at the Spallanzani in Rome, Professor Vaia used monoclonals. “Effective but at the moment very expensive and must be strictly administered in hospital. But medicine is advancing at an incessant pace. For example, it has been discovered that there is a common cough syrup that contains Bromhexine which has very interesting effects: tested on about eighty people, divided into two groups, among those who took it there were no deaths and it was had only one intensive care against three deaths and five hospitalizations among those who had not received it. It was also recently discovered that a cortisone-based anti-asthma preparation reduced hospital admissions by 90%. “As for the third dose,” daily doses already exceed those of the first. As a doctor, I have already done it and I believe that all the elderly should do it. It starts from the over 80s up to the 60s. The older and weaker you are, the fewer antibodies you produce and the faster the vaccine loses its effectiveness; in general, after eight months the protection falls “, he warns. If we had communicated better, would we not have had no vax?” There is little to do with those who are not convinced by the evidence – he adds – If the vaccine scares you more than being locked at home for three months in lockdown or dying alone and intubated, there is no communication that can convince you. The truth is that man is strange and everyone has his own head. I look at the glass 90% full: if nine out of ten have been vaccinated, it means that the message has passed. “What was the turning point of the pandemic?” General Figliuolo – Remuzzi replies – He has revolutionized the organization by inserting a very simple novelty: if you have problems, call me, I have an organization that manages to mobilize the ASL. The keystone were the army and the Civil Protection “. Finally Remuzzi sent to” do not confuse science with talk shows. There are programs made on purpose to make people argue, with the conductors who choose the most divisive profiles, white against black, the one who is tranchant wins and if you insinuate doubts you do not make an audience. Instead, medicine is dynamic, it is a continuous evolution of contradicting knowledge. It goes on for doubts and attempts. “Was something wrong in the communication on Covid?” It has not been made to understand that everything that is said about the virus has value in that exact moment. What is true today may turn out to be fallacious tomorrow. And then in medicine there are no absolute truths: it is wrong for those who are in favor of prophylaxis to say that vaccinated people do not get infected, because then the facts deny it and the injections lose credibility. Suffice it to say that they get less seriously ill and are less contagious. This already makes us understand how the vaccine was the solution “.