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“We are returning to seeing family clusters as in the first wave. With the difference that at that time the vaccine did not exist and therefore it was enough for one component to contract Covid to pass it on to all relatives. Now the vaccine is there, but there are also entire families no vax, for which time seems not to have passed “. This was told by Annamaria Cattelan, head of Infectious Diseases of the Padua hospital, interviewed by Corriere della Sera who explains “60% of those hospitalized with the coronavirus are not immunized”.
And regarding the other pathologies he affirms: “They lag behind. We have been neglecting HIV patients for two years and we have slowed down the WHO campaign for the eradication of hepatitis C a lot. We guarantee urgencies with the resources and staff available, little thing given that almost everything and everyone is absorbed by Covid “