LET’S START ONCE AGAIN. Friends found. Holidays to breathe again. But also the challenges of science: from new drugs to future vaccines, to the measures necessary to avoid Covid 2021. The new issue of Salute, on newsstands on May 27 with the Republic, the print and the publications of the Gedi Group, is dedicated to the great theme of restarting after the emergency. Will it happen as in the 1920s when after the Spanish epidemic, Europe experienced a new social, cultural and industrial ferment? This is the common thread of the investigation signed by Elisa Manacorda which explores the theme starting from the point of view of Nicholais Christakis, professor at Yale University and author of the book “Apollo’s arrow. The profound and lasting impact of the coronavirus on your lives”.
Covid 19 vaccine, a marker in the blood will reveal immunity
by Fiammetta Cupellaro
However, it is still early to imagine not having to defend against Sars-CoV2. Professor explains it Alberto Mantovani, Scientific Director of Irccs Humanitas in the Other Editorial: “Will we need new vaccines to defeat the variants? Probably yes and we are working all over the world, just as we are studying to understand if a third dose can activate an immune response strong enough to protect us from all variants “. However, we must deal with a share of the population that escapes vaccines: 30%, as the director explains Daniela Minerva in his editorial dedicated to the problem of No-vax and “the mess of the involvement of family doctors who are unable to leave”. But it is the whole system of local medicine that has succumbed under the weight of managing the epidemic, observes Letizia Gabaglio during the interview Milena Vainieri, teacher of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. With her we have drawn some guidelines to rethink our national health system. The Guide this month is then dedicated to antiviral drugs. They should have been a weapon against Covid-19, but after more than a year there is still no therapy that has proven effective. Let’s try to understand why it is so complex to produce this type of drug.
Health, how important are our daily choices
The pandemic has also been merciless in relationships. Professor Vittorio Lingiardi, an internationally renowned psychiatrist and professor at La Sapienza University, analyzes the consequences of this long interruption. After what he calls “WhatsAppization of friendship”. “The pandemic has shown us who is ‘inside’ and who ‘is outside’. It is difficult to imagine that this long crossing leaves no trace ”.
Vaccini, Silvio Brusaferro (Iss): “The third dose is very likely”
The character of this number is Max Gazzè, an artist committed to solidarity with show business workers who tells the urgent need to resume our lives where they left off, starting from music, from art. Just as we have to go back to breathing deeply, perhaps walking where in Italy the air is so thin as to be similar to that of the Arctic. An itinerary drawn up with professor Warren Cairns of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Cnr. To rediscover pure air, indeed very pure.
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