Rome, February 16, 2022 – The emergency is over, numbers and scientists say so. Guido Silvestri, pathologist, immunologist and virologist, professor & chair at Emory University in Atlanta, thinks that “the pandemic as a health emergency capable of overwhelming health services is now over in Western countries and wherever there are sufficiently high percentages of vaccinated, as well as 90% of the adult population “. “The most likely scenario is that Covid will become an endemic respiratory disease with a typical seasonal pattern, with a resurgence in late autumn and especially winter – he explains – as we see with …
Rome, February 16, 2022 – The emergency is over, numbers and scientists say so. Guido Silvestripathologist, immunologist and virologist, professor & chair at Emory University in Atlanta, thinks “the pandemic as a health emergency capable of overwhelming health services is now over in Western countries and wherever there are sufficiently high percentages of vaccinated people, over 90% of the adult population “.” The most likely scenario is that Covid you become one illness respiratory endemic from the typical trend seasonalwith resurgence in late autumn and especially winter – he explains – as we see with theinfluenza and with i coronavirus which have been adapted to the human population for some time “.
Covid Bulletin: data for February 16
And in this wake it also continues Sergio Abrignaniimmunologist and member of the Scientific technical committee: “I don’t think it will be extended state of emergency and, therefore, will also melt the Cts. I don’t think we should go through the emergency situation we experienced in the past anymore, at least if Omicron remains. And I don’t think there will be one soon variant more diffusive than Omicronit is difficult and unlikely to imagine it. “The pandemic numbers explain that the hospitalizations begins to decline rapidly: in one week, the figure for hospitalized Covid patients decreased by 17% according to the Fiaso survey (Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospital Companies) of 15 February. In the ordinary wards, the decrease in patients, compared to February 8, is 16% while in the intensive the decrease reaches 26%.
The great work on vaccines made the difference from last year, when we didn’t have such effective tools against the virus. Now the most likely horizon is an (eventual) annual immunization. The general director Nicola Magrini explains: “For the non-fragile population, with next summer we will enter a new scenario: widespread immunity and cyclic circulation of the parainfluenza virus. At that point we will evaluate how to proceed, we will understand if a mass recall will be necessary or only partial “.
“I’m studying the vaccines that they can be effective his all the variants“, to explain it is Massimo Scaccabarozzipresident of Farmindustria. Which he added: “If there is an annual recall, it will be the institutions and scientists to evaluate it.” It has been closed, and in these hours it is sanitized to reopen tomorrow as a normal ward, the covid delivery from Codogno (Lauds). It had been reopened on 10 January after the latest increase in patients. It is therefore the second closure in the city that symbolizes the outbreak of the pandemic in Italy. The department had been opened with the discovery of the so-called ‘patient 1 Italian ‘and had already been closed for the first time on 4 June 2021. “We hope this is the last, definitive closure of this department” underlines Paolo Bernocchi, medical director of Asst in Lodi. “The now former Covid area therefore – concludes Bernocchi – will once again be dedicated to patients in surgery, medicine and cardio-pneumological rehabilitation”.
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