There were 56,166 cases and 75 deaths yesterday. Patients with symptoms increased (plus 141 from yesterday) and beds in intensive care (plus 9 from yesterday, 225 in all)
Capua, “virus at the beginning of its evolution, caution against variants”
“Sars-CoV-2 will not disappear either during or after the summer. It is a virus at the beginning of its race towards endemization, it is at the beginning of a macrocycle that will last years and years, certainly decades, but I believe even centuries. On the other hand, measles, also the son of a spillover, has been keeping us company for over two thousand years “. So the virologist Ilaria Capuadirector of the One Health Center of Excellence at the University of Florida, calls for caution against an enemy from which it seems we will not be able to free ourselves and who will reappear with new and different ‘faces’: “Let’s put our souls in peace – she declares – because the beginning of the evolutionary macrocycle of this virus is in its infancy “and the so-called new normal” will never be the same as before the pandemic.
Hope: thanks to the anti-Covid vaccines you save 20 million people in the world
“Italy is one of the countries with the highest rate of vaccinations in Europe and in the world: there was a study published in ‘lancet’ in the last few hours, which says that only in 2021 they were saved thanks to 20 vaccines millions of people globally. This is what science tells us. ” Thus the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranzawho today went to the Spallanzani in Rome to express closeness to the operators, after the walls at the entrance of the institute were smeared during the night with phrases against vaccines.
Nursing up: +6,500 health workers infected in 5 days, 68% increase
“In just 5 days”, from 18 to 23 June, “there are 6,487 more health care workers infected” by Covid “in Italian hospitals: in fact, in this period of time, we have gone from 9,484 to 15,971 newly infected “, with an increase of over 68%. “It is not difficult to imagine that well over half are nurses.” According to the latest data from the Higher Institute of Health, the Nursing-Up nurses union warns: from 18 to 23 June “we went from an average of 316 health workers per day to an average of 532 professionals who infect. Something significant, there is no doubt, is happening “, says the president of the acronym, Anthony De Palma.