Fourth wave and the Omicron effect, the expert: “In 2022 the virus will be under control but we will never return to normal”

Today’s data, however, still speak of a virus that, even with dull blades like those of a year ago, still puts work in hospitals in difficulty.

VENETO. The third year of Covid opens with a new record of infections in Veneto: 14,270. Relatively limited deaths: 12. And also hospitalizations, more than halved compared to a year ago: 1,275 in the medical area and 197 in intensive care. Figures that allow Andrea Vianello, director of respiratory physiopathology at the Padua hospital, to look to the future with a certain, albeit cautious, optimism.