Even the president of Aifa Giorgio Palù is part of the ongoing debate on the advisability of retiring the daily bulletin of Covid infections in Italy.
"I would be in favor of a weekly or more institutional or perhaps even more diluted communication", he said during an interview with Porta a Porta.
Palù also expressed his opinion on the request of the Lombardy Region to remove from the Covid account the patients hospitalized for other diseases that are found to be positive in the hospital and are inevitably transferred to the Covid wards, despite not having pneumonia in place: "It can become a numerical artifice. It's time to begin to talk about the difference between infection and disease, because there are various degrees of disease. Being positive does not mean being sick and making this distinction is important ".
The president of AIFA said he was optimistic about the trend of the curve: “Something is telling us that continuous growth is impossible. If we think of the positive cases, those who are cured, the immunizations that are reaching 90% of the over 12s, I expect the curve to decrease because when there is such a strong barrier, any virus stops growing ".
Palù also suggested to Italy to do as in the United Kingdom, "where they decided to make swabs at home and then put them online on the electronic file, this would simplify the queues in pharmacies, which generate a lot of social concern" .
Finally, the vaccines chapter: “They must be updated, it is useless for us to vaccinate ourselves with the fourth, fifth or sixth dose, otherwise this is no longer a vaccine. The technology is there to do it in a few days. It will be important to see if the vaccine against Omicron will give an immune response more important than the current one and if it will cover, as seems to emerge from a study in Durban in South Africa, also the Delta variants and the previous ones ".
(Unioneonline / L)
