Giorgio Palù, professor emeritus of the University of Padua, former president of the Italian and European Societies of Virology, current number one of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa), as well as a member of the Scientific technical committee, spoke on the columns of “Il Messaggero” announcing a really positive news: “I don’t dare to make predictions, but the English data, that is the most verifiable, tell us that the Coronavirus is becoming endemic”.
As he has often repeated, no pandemic lasts two years: the virus tries to persist in the population, which has become its natural host, adapting to the human species. Which means being more contagious, due to the need to be transmitted, but also having a lower lethality, therefore resembling a flu. The factor that contributes the most to this endemizzazione And “Certainly immunization”. Should we therefore think about the third dose of the vaccine? “To talk about the third dose, you have to think about who, when and what to administer. The CTS has already recommended the third dose for fragile subjects such as immunosuppressed people, transplant recipients, cancer patients and dialysis patients. Then, it is necessary to wait for the results of the Israeli and American studies to evaluate the most appropriate time and, to understand which vaccine to inject, it is good to keep in mind that preparations are being prepared that can protect us from the variants that will have an approval path facilitated by Ema and Fda “.
GIORGIO PALÙ: “MONITORING THE SCHOOL”
Giorgio Palù, in the continuation of his speech in “Il Messaggero”, also asserted that it is necessary to convince adults who perform public functions to get vaccinated, with particular reference to health and school personnel, but also to any figure involved in the public administration and who has responsibilities towards society.
As regards, however, the school, it can be reopened in presence, “Obviously by carefully monitoring the epidemic trend, providing the masks, guaranteeing air conditioning systems with inlet and outlet to the outside”. However, it will be necessary to keep an eye on the epidemiological data: currently, the national RT stands at 1.1 and the weekly number of positives per hundred thousand inhabitants is on average around 70.
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