“The risk of a resumption of viral circulation with the reopenings exists“. Pier Luigi Lopalco, epidemiologist and councilor for health of the Puglia Region, told time.news Salute about the reopening in the country.” Italy is now divided in two with a North that was hit in advance by so-called third wave and a South still in the balance. The so-called stop-and-go right now could lengthen the period of suffering before the arrival of summer“.
“A one-off screening before returning would not lead to a significant result,” he comments on the hypothesis of providing swabs for children who will return to school next week. “The swab before returning to school only makes sense if repeated systematically, which is not feasible given the number of students”.
“The combination of swabs, vaccination and infection can select a large population that would allow a resumption of numerous activities” he says about the usefulness of tools such as green cards or vaccination passports. “The risk, however, must always be related to the level of circulation of the virus in the population: if the viral circulation is low, these measures practically eliminate the risk in the case of aggregations such as cinemas or restaurants. But if the circulation is still high, from swabs and vaccinations alone do not offer the necessary guarantee for complete reopening “, concludes Lopalco.