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Italian scientist Giuseppe Remuzzi, who is currently the director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, in the city of Milan (Italy), made statements about the new coronavirus that caused debate in recent days. According to him, the disease of covid-19, which is a product of the virus, now “is very different compared to the start of the pandemic.”
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Remuzzi is a recognized doctor and scientist in his country. He trained at the University of Pavia and later specialized in Hematology and Nephrology at the University of Milan. Starting in 1975, he began an academic career at the hospital of Bergamo, his hometown and one of the places with the most deaths from coronavirus in the world, as it reached a mortality rate of 464%.
Since July 2018, he has held the position of director of the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, a non-profit entity that is dedicated to clinical and biomedical research and that It has closely watched the development of the new coronavirus in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic in the world.
In an interview with the Italian television network ‘La 7’, the expert said that the virus could stop its accelerated expansion in the coming months.
“There will be a vaccine, but if things continue as they are now, the virus is likely to be gone by then.”, noted the scientist.
He also commented that “the vaccine will be useful for the next time or for other viruses”, because it would not be “absolutely necessary to face the current pandemic.”
Before, around 80 people came to the emergency services. Now, we get 10 and 8 of them can be sent to your homes
According to him, the conditions in which the new coronavirus is developing have changed in recent weeks, as have the people who contract it.
“Patients are now completely different from those of three or four weeks ago, intensive care and hospitalizations continue to decline in hospitals“Remuzzi said.
He also clarified that the situation has changed in all the main cities of Italy, because “before, around 80 people came to the emergency services, all of them with severe respiratory difficulties. Now, 10 and 8 of them can be sent to their houses”.
However, Remuzzi stressed that he did not want to get ahead of what is happening and added: “We are very careful, because there could be a second wave of the pandemic”.
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According to Johns Hopkins University, which currently has one of the world’s most robust databases on the virus, Italy has more than 212,000 confirmed cases of infected people and more than 30,900 deaths.
Although the pandemic curve has already declined in some countries, in places like South Korea, where authorities decided to track 5,000 people after identifying new infections, other outbreaks have occurred. This has caused the governments of the world to consider acting with caution against a virus whose appearance is still surprising.
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