“It is certain that other variants will arrive” but “we will be more and more able to deal with them. Today we have a closet full of tools to fight the virus, so I think we should talk less about Covid and start treating it as a situation of forced coexistence but also enough natural, because we live with so many pathogens “.
So in AgorĆ , on Rai 3, virologist Ilaria Capua, director of One Health Center of Excellence, University of Florida, in the United States who underlines: “We must keep in mind that the virus will not go away and that probably in November we will need to put on masks again, but only for a couple of months, and a vaccination will have to be done. I will certainly do it as soon as available “.
Italians, continued Capua, “are mostly vaccinated and know what the rules are to protect themselves from Covid. Some find it difficult to respect these rules and have become the fragile component of the population”. Sars-Cov-2, he concluded, “will not go away and we will have to learn to live with it, but I don’t think other dramatic situations will happen like those seen in 2020. Science has given us tools, we are armed with vaccines, monoclonals, antivirals and therapeutic protocols “.
Green pass: Capua, it could be useful in the autumn
In spring and summer it can be less necessary, difficult forecasts
“Notwithstanding that with the virus we will have to continue to live with it and that we have seen that it has an important seasonality, now that we are at the gates of the spring-summer season, it may be that the green pass is less useful. But it could be useful again in the autumn. Now we can’t know, we don’t have the glass ball. ” Thus in AgorĆ , on Rai 3, the virologist Ilaria Capua, director of One Health Center of Excellence, University of Florida, in the United States, with respect to the debate between aperturists or penalty takers, or between experts in favor of eliminating the green pass and others instead oriented to keep it. “I believe – adds Capua – that polarizations hurt, the two positions are both respectable”, because “we don’t have a solution but we can only make predictions”.