The Covid summer wave leaves no one alone. The contagious variant that is making summer difficult for many Italians is the Omicron 5. A variant that, according to several studies, “can reinfect you every month”. The research, conducted in various countries – from the USA to Australia – confirmed it: 3 doses and an infection are no longer enough to be immune.
“What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA.2 and then become infected. after four weeks – has explained Andrew Roberston, Health Officer of Western Australia, a News.com – So in six to eight weeks they are developing a second infection, and this is almost certainly BA.4 or BA.5 “. Precisely for this reason scholars tend to talk about the strain now “more transmissible and powerful” seen so far.
Of the same opinion is David Montefiori, professor at the Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University Medical Center, who in an interview with NBC News he said: “The new variant is taking over, so it is clearly more contagious than the previous Omicron variants.” Immunology professor Danny Altmann then added: “The Omicron infection was a poor immunity booster to the further new Omicron. It’s kind of a stealth virus that goes under the radar“.
