The Covid-19 pandemic has made him a familiar, familiar face, like many other doctors, scientists and virologists. In these hours the announcement, arrived on TV: "From November 1st I am retiring".
We are talking about Massimo Galli, head of infectious diseases at the Sacco hospital in Milan, one of the most followed, sought, listened to and sometimes criticized "voices" of the audience of experts who - from the beginning of the health emergency - populate television broadcasts and columns of newspapers, to "translate" and therefore make information about the virus accessible even to non-experts.
Galli has reached 70 years of age and will soon attack, as they say, the shirt to the nail. But he himself assures: "I do not abandon the trench", referring to his activity at the forefront of the war against Covid, which in recent months he has also carried out in parallel with his activity as an "expert" on the media.
“We doctors, together with the magistrates, are the kind of people who would never want to retire,” he explained in an interview with Corriere. “But in Milan they say: 'Pumpkins and melons in their season'. And behind me there are those who deserve to take this place ”.
Professor Galli, however, also has other plans for his retirement business. "I will not stop studying", he assures. Adding: “My passion for the history of epidemics will lead me to deepen a great book. That folder that has collected all the dead in Milan since 1452. An unexplored territory to be digitized. And then I want to write books: I also have a novel in the drawer ”.
(Unioneonline / lf)
