Outdoors you can leave again. He is convinced of it Roberto Burioni, according to which with the arrival of summer, bars, theaters and restaurants can be restarted immediately. The virologist of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele university exposes his idea on Twitter and then specifies it.
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“It is true that there are still full hospitals and that we need to be careful, but now, after a year of pandemic, we know that the risk outdoors is very low. The data tell us so”. Burioni does not intend to underestimate the virus. “It is terrible on the inside, much less so on the outside. This is an aspect that must be taken into consideration. The openings and closings are political choices. One thing, however, is open-air cinemas or theaters, one thing. those indoors. Like all respiratory viruses, this too is transmitted much less outdoors than in closed spaces “.
The virologist does not hide his desire to return at least a little to his former life, after so many months of closures. “Is the season still not good? I want to go out so much that I would go to see a film even in these temperatures, with my coat on”.
And on the reopening also Maria Rita Gismondo, microbiologist at the Sacco hospital in Milan, invites us to balance caution and the need to react to the pandemic paralysis. “I believe that, with appropriate security measures, we can and must proceed with the reopening”, explained the expert, adding: “Unfortunately, we still record deaths from Covid. These are terrible numbers, alongside which we should, however, also keep in mind others: lost jobs, cultural and psychological damage “.
But, explains Gismondo, “we know the safety distance, the importance of masks” and “we have rapid diagnostic tools and vaccines. We use these weapons to start living again. We must preserve ourselves with vaccines and with tracking but also resume a life as normal as possible “.
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