With the Omicron variant running and gradually supplanting the Delta, “the incidence of Covid will grow even more. I believe that in the near future we will also reach 150 thousand cases a day or more, with a peak that we probably expect in mid-January.“The virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan, promises this, looking to the future, relaunches his metaphor:” We must consider that this pandemic will go on like the waves caused by a stone in a pond – he reiterates at time.news Salute – Whenever there are situations favorable to the virus, we will have further waves “.
For this reason “I think there will be a need for periodic vaccination – he confirms – presumably with a strategy similar to the one we use against the flu”. Therefore, an annual prophylaxis aimed at the categories most at risk is expected. But in the meantime, after the third, will we also do a fourth dose? “We will see – replies the doctor – but it will be done at this point with updated vaccines” to Omicron, “considering the 100 days necessary for the adaptation” of the mRna products.
Pregliasco welcomes the measures of the new decree and nevertheless believes “that we can go further”. “Those approved yesterday” by the Council of Ministers are “necessary interventions – he underlines – But perhaps in the near future they will have to be reinforced, in light of the fact that in my opinion the incidence of” Covid-19 “will continue to rise: after this holiday period we will have a further share of cases, and even if the Omicron variant seems to be calmer “from the point of view of symptoms, being much more transmissible” in large numbers it puts pressure on health systems.
“Well the lockdown actually imposed on the unvaccinated – explains to time.news Salute – but I believe that the Super Green pass also for work is necessary and useful“. The vaccination obligation extended to other categories?” I wouldn’t mind “, he replies.” I have always liked the idea of the obligation as a choice of linearity. I agree with those who say that the aspects relating to compensation for any damage must be clarified, so that everything is transparent and there is no excuse. This is already the case now, but the practice is not clear “, he specifies.
Protagonist together with colleagues Matteo Bassetti and Andrea Crisanti of the viral video-song ‘Sì Sì vax’, sung to the notes of ‘Jingle Bells’ for the Rai Radio 1 broadcast ‘A sheep’s day’, Pregliasco shows himself to be a possibility on the idea of tread the stage of the Flower Festival. “Going to Sanremo? Well, it would be an opportunity to communicate. If I were invited I would certainly not go there to sing, but perhaps to spread the word“says the virologist.
After today in ‘La Stampa’ Maurizio Costanzo signed a piece entitled ‘In Sanremo I want the Pregliasco-Bassetti-Crisanti trio’, at the time.news Salute which probes the theoretical availability, the professor of the State University of Milan replies with a joke : “I know, I’m out of tune. I wouldn’t sing, at most I’d talk.”