Pandemic: why in Italy about 100 people per day still die of covid? – Zyri

A spring Easter fully fills tourist places and restores confidence after two years of pandemic in Italy, but a study shows that Omicrom and its variants are lethal to the unvaccinated. Italy also has 10% more deaths than the rest of Europe, which maintains a certain concern.

Professor Fabrizio Precliasco, from the University of Milan, pointed out that the data from the study carried out in Hong Kong revealing that Omicron 2 and its variants more related ones are as deadly as the ancestral variants of Covid-19.

Pregliasco said that the illness does not turn into a cold with the advancement of omicron 2, the dominant virus. There is an objective reduction of the worst effects with those who have received the two, three and now fourth doses of Pfizer or Moderna, but the risk of mortality is similar to the times when they began to apply the vaccines, in 2021.

Easter is a test bench, says the expert Pregliasco, who invites citizens to use good senseto gradually recover normality because the virus is still circulating And it does a lot of harm.

In 2020 there were 79 thousand deaths from the pandemic in Italy, which fell to 53 thousand in 2021. Until the first fortnight of April, 22 thousand more deaths are registered.

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The government has begun to apply the fourth dose to those over 80 years of age and to frail patients with a series of diseases. Along the way, it is expected to advance to the other age groups. There is no certainty that the youngest should also be vaccinated But this will be indicated by the reality of the infections and the spread of the most serious cases, Pregliasco said.

Health Minister Roberto Speranza said that after May 1 they will adopt the new orientations. The day before expires the obligation to use masks in closed places.

Speranza said that he believes that in schools, students over the age of six should continue to wear a mask in class until the end of the school year.

The North American cardiologist Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine, confirmed that the Omicron 2 and related variants, already dominate in most of the world. And he highlighted the cases that have occurred in southern China and that led the government to establish the quarantine of the 26 million inhabitants of Shanghai.

People in protective gear walk the streets of Shanghai on Monday. Photo: EFE

With drastic measures of isolation, vaccinations and controls, it had prevented the penetration of the Covid 19 virus. In the first two years of the pandemic in southeastern China, 12,531 cases were registered with 213 deaths. The important wave came this year, guided by Omicron 2.2, which caused more than 1.1 million infected with 7,900 deaths.

Specialist Topol highlights how precious Hong Kongs experience with Omicron 2 is, which attacked a population with a previous low exposure to the virus, In the Italian case, local scientists warn that the greatest risk of a pandemic that is in a recession phase but remains activesuffered by infected patients who they did not complete the vaccination.

They appear to have a mortality risk similar to those who were infected in the ancestral strains of sars-Cov-2.

The famous microbiologist from the University of Padoa Andrea Crisanti, with several daily statements in front of television cameras, has its own theory. In his favor is that he always thinks and is rarely wrong.

With the rate of contagion that Omicron has, containment measures no longer work. In Shanghai they have been in quarantine for a month and the end is not in sight. If you can not contain it is better make it circulate more freely to the virus, strictly protecting the elderly and the frail sick.

Crisanti presents his strategy like this: No masks in closed places and quarantine for the one who is positive. With micron, the priority has changed, which is no longer controlling the spread of the virus but dont make the frail sickbecause if it infects a child under fifteen years of age, nothing happens and, on the other hand, if it happens to an elderly person with other diseases, they can still lose their lives .

The laboratory director virologist at the University of Padua launched his lunge, against giving the anti-Covid vaccine together with the flu. I think that It is a commercial operation because the flu with containment measures has practically disappeared.

On the weekend in Italy the infected and the dead decrease because there are fewer controls. Nevertheless deaths reached 210 and those infected were 115,148 between Saturday and Sunday.

In Italy there are currently 1.22 million infected in their homes. The data of the 9,758 common hospitalized patients are reassuring, with a decrease of 120 compared to Friday and only 403 in intensive care: less than eight in 24 hours. In March 2020, the maximum peak of 4,300 hospitalized in intensive care was reached, the most seriously ill.

Rome, correspondent

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