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Infections are

increasing

in Italy, but not hospitalizations.

The system seems to hold up, as in the United Kingdom, considering that in Italy the Delta variant began to penetrate two weeks later and that in terms of administration of doses of the vaccine it is recovering rapidly.

Will it continue like this?

In a large hospital like the Gemelli polyclinic, which has created an

active

Covid

plant

since March 2020, there are no signs of an increase for now.

Old people

Roberto Bernabei,

Pope Francis' doctor

, head of the geriatrics department of said hospital, makes a visit to the patients: "A third are the same" protagonists "of the first epidemic waves, those over 75 years old. Half of them were hospitalized for problems related to old age and, once subjected to a swab, it was discovered that they also had

Covid

, albeit mildly or asymptomatic. They were brought to us by diabetes, heart failure and chronic diseases, not Sars-CoV- 2.

The other half was not vaccinated

. "

The remaining two-thirds are "positive young people under 42, strictly unvaccinated. Even among them there were no casualties, but someone took a nice death loop, as I call it. Intense cortisone and heparin therapies, high oxygen fluxes. .. I wonder what the point is to go towards this experience that could be avoided with two simple gestures. The double dose of vaccine ".

Anti-Covid preparations could save healthy people at least 10 days from an infectious disease that can leave sequelae.

Bernabei

warns: "It is not always a walk in the park. You cure and then you do not know if you will bring any sequel, even slight."

Persistent Covid

The Higher Institute of Health has just published a report on

persistent Covid

, a disease of those recovered from

Covid

that, even two months after the negative smear, suffer a series of sequelae that last over time.

Some

200 symptoms

have been recorded

that affect various organs

.

"We have opened the first day hospital dedicated to

persistent Covid

, led by Professor Francesco Landi. There is a long waiting list until November. That is why I insist so much: the virus must not be spread, period and that's it. long-term effects of infection ".

Perhaps fueling the false certainty that getting infected with

Covid

is not so serious is the model of footballers who return to the field once cured.

Cases that do not make sense

: "Many return to play in a short time, many instead struggle to recover, as in a long convalescence. I do not want alarm. But it is silly not to prevent," he warns.

Reinfections

As a geriatrician,

Bernabei

lives the current phase of the epidemic more calmly.

The comparison with the previous one does not hold: "There is definitely no alarm as before. There may be some cases of reinfection in vaccinated elderly, but it occurs with all vaccines, in even higher percentages."

The images of the protests of the deniers, all together and without masks, cause fear of an increase in the incidence of the coronavirus, and also

there are outbreaks in the holiday resorts

.

"It is absurd that not even the evidence of the extraordinary effect of vaccines, the equally evident damaging effect of Covid 19, even on young people, persuades these people to behave in a civilized and respectful way. I cannot believe that ideology and prejudice towards science are stronger than reality.

The vaccine saves lives

. The virus can extinguish it or ruin it. "


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