Covid infections are increasing in Italy, but “it is a difficult time to make predictions. We can refer to when it happened in Portugal, which had this wave a couple of months earlier. I believe, however, we are still in a phase of epidemiological ascent and this increase of cases will still lead to an increase in hospitalizations that always travel with a delay of 10-15 days. The peak? We will have all of July with high numbers “of cases. Claudio Mastroianni, president of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit) and full professor of Infectious Diseases at the Sapienza University of Rome, highlights this at beraking latest news Salute, taking stock of the epidemiological situation.
“Not serious Covid pneumonia arrives at the hospital, but if the patient has other pathologies there is some more risk”, adds the infectious disease specialist.