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Galli: “The children most affected by Delta: the reopening of schools will bring problems”

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“It is not new that children are more affected by the virus. Compared to last year, the Alpha variant had already shown a change of gear, with an increase in infections, recorded between 29 December and 10 March, greater than the 83% under the age of 10. And the Delta has even greater transmission efficiency. This is not good news, the reopening of schools will bring problems. ” Like this Massimo Galli, Director of Infectious Diseases of the Sacco Hospital in Milan.

Health Festival. The virus, the medicine to come and the new frontiers of research


The occasion is the second day of the Salute Festival, at the Carignano Theater in Turin. “Back to the future. The lesson of Covid and the future that awaits us”, the title of the panel conducted by Gabriele Beccaria, journalist of the newspaper The print, in which they also participated Anna Sabino, director of the Irccs Institute of Candiolo, Cristina Prandi, full professor of Organic Chemistry and Vice Rector for Research at the University of Turin, e Pier Paolo Di Fiore, program director of Novel Diagnostics Ieo, Milan.

Massimo Galli, Director of Infectious Diseases, Sacco Hospital, Milan

It was the infectious disease specialist who opened the talk show, calling herd immunity ‘a bad word’. “We are still far away. We are talking about an effective vaccination on the disease and the severity of the clinical picture, but still limited on the prevention of infection. We need a more effective product”. On the obligation of prophylaxis, the doctor does not hesitate: “I have no ideological qualms in saying that sometimes the collective interest must prevail over individual choices. It will be difficult to obtain it quickly, an extension of the Green pass is more likely. Not I care to hear it defined as a ‘masked obligation’. Vaccinating is the only way “. For Galli, science is not an abstract entity, but a procedure carried out by steps, with the exception of exceptional jumps. “We are in a new condition, we had to learn everything from scratch, discovering the various aspects of the disease and building ourselves over time”.

On the left Gabriele Beccaria, in the center Pier Paolo Di Fiore, program director of Novel Diagnostics Ieo, Milan

Along the same lines, Professor Of flower, who told the impact of Covid on medical research: “The spirit has not changed. It is typical of man to ask himself questions and to answer. I would define him as a being curious more than sapiens“. Between historical anecdotes and technical explanations, the expert talks about the approach in promoting knowledge:” That division between basic research and applied research does not exist. It is a continuum, where one illuminates the ground, the other chooses it “.

Anna Sapino, director of the Irccs Institute of Candiolo, University of Turin

It is then the professor’s turn Sapino: “There has been a variation in our work rhythms, we have known the confrontation with digital reality, which has become a daily option to be used in the best possible way, thanks to multidisciplinary evaluations”. But also the radical transformation of the medical profession and the attitude of patients: “The causes of death from other pathologies have increased, in the oncology field there has been a wave of diagnostic delays, a maximum decrease in screening. Without forgetting the million hospitalizations and 14 million fewer health services from January to December 2020. It would take health education, understand when we have to go to the doctor. As well as a rationalization of access to services, only if driven by real needs . And the creation of suitable structures for a continuity of service even in dramatic moments should not be neglected “.

Cristina Prandi, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin

For the teacher Prandi “the pandemic has had a collective impact, it has changed what we are studying, and how, creating transversal collaborations”. From the phenomenon of ‘speedy science’, to data sharing, up to the rapid processes of review. “Scientific research is at the center of political discussions, as well as the public and private binomial, the issue of funding. Italy needs regular investments, as has not been the case for decades, but it is necessary for an item to appear in the state budget with a very different order of magnitude “.

The panel ends with Galli, which sends a message of hope (“A much less dramatic autumn awaits us than last year”), and pressed by Beccaria reiterates the importance of research: “A country that does not have one is like a team that drops from the Serie B to C. A speech made many times, we hope it will be possible to influence those in charge on this priority “.

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