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September 24, 2020 Despite the increase in cases in recent weeks, we should not expect "a second big wave", and probably not even a rapid deterioration that "puts us in conditions similar to those of France and Great Britain, even if it is a 'eventuality to be contained, which however needs to understand what happens in the next 2-3 weeks ".
To say it is the infectious disease specialist of the Sacco hospital in Milan, Massimo Galli.
Speaking at the conference 'Child health and pharmaceutical poverty in Lombardy, before and after the COVID-19 emergency.
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in Milan, Galli said he doubts that there will be a rapid deterioration as in our European neighbors. To those who asked him why in France, Spain, Great Britain and Israel there are many more cases than in Italy, Galli noted how it is " It is difficult to give an answer based on scientifically real data. Unbalancing myself, I can say that ours is a situation resulting from the lockdown, more rigid in Italy than elsewhere, and which has allowed a marked reduction in infections spread throughout the country, even in the less affected areas ".
The lockdown also made it possible to keep covid-free or almost the areas less affected by the infection.
"And this was an important element, making a first hypothesis", he continues. Of course, now despite having a better situation in the surrounding countries and in March and April, "we have a few more patients in hospital and in intensive care, and we are preparing the resources to be able to cope with a possible emergency, even if in a context different from that of the surrounding countries ".
And precisely compared to the surrounding countries, he stressed that in Italy there are several "fewer tampons, and this is a very important point, a deficiency that we have not yet been able to completely fill - he concludes - which also leads us to a second problem. that is, here and there in Italy there is a certain delay in the response which should be immediate ".