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Omicron 4 and 5: dangers and vaccines. How will the summer be – breaking latest news

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Omicron 4 and 5: dangers and vaccines.  How will the summer be – breaking latest news

The RT transmission index returns above the epidemic threshold and marks +1.07, the first time since April. So the Sars-Cov2 virus sheds its skin, starts to gallop and does not care about the summer season that we thought was sheltering us. We are at 505 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, + 62% within a week. Gianni Rezza, director of prevention of the ministry, in commenting on the monitoring data of the control room, specifies that the employment rate in general medicine wards is 7.9%, while intensive care is 2.2%, so we are well below the critical threshold. What can we do? “Given the high viral circulation – says Professor Rezza – it is useful to go back to wearing masks in the presence of large aggregations and at the same time protect the most fragile and older people with an additional booster dose”. When will the peak be? “By mid-July the wave of positive cases for the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants could reach a peak and enter the regression phase”, explains virologist Stefano Menzo, director of the Virology Laboratory at the Ospedali Riuniti in Ancona. The specialist emphasizes that these are in any case hypotheses that will then be confirmed based on the evolution of the pandemic. In any case, the two variants will “replace Omicron BA.2. The wave will not have the same duration as that generated by Omicron BA.1 and BA.2”. What will happen in the next few weeks? Let’s expect a very high circulation of viruses, Omicron 5 in particular, without panicking. Many positive people are followed at home with antivirals, say illustrious infectious diseases, many patients with positive swabs arrive at the hospital, but it is necessary to distinguish between those who have Covid pneumonia and others. In other words, the death of a positive swab person does not mean that they are missing due to …

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