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The scientific director of Spallanzani in Rome, Giuseppe Ippolito, speaking in a webinar about the “Plan for anti-Covid vaccines in Lazio” promoted by the president of the regional council Mauro Buschini, said that “despite the vaccination, we cannot think that we will return to systems as they were before. The virus will keep us company until the first quarter of 2022. Those levels of stockpiling are no longer possible “(COVID: ALL UPDATES – CONTAGIO MAPS AND GRAPHICS – THE SITUATION IN ROME AND LAZIO).
“Death rate from covid 3 times higher than influenza”
Ippolito continued: “The death rate from Covid is three times higher than the flu, we have twice as many hospitalizations in intensive care and although the flu can be controlled at home, for Covid we needed hospitalization which in the flu was twice as benign. “The speed of spread of this disease is parallel to the speed with which the institutions faced the emergency. Lazio did a very good job.”
“Flu Vaccine Risks”
Ippolito added: “Vaccines have been shown to be effective and safe. The possibility of having an undesirable effect is more or less that of the flu vaccine. The advantage of the vaccine is immeasurable.”
“At least 5 monoclonal antibodies in 2021”
“At least 5 monoclonal antibodies will be available in the first quarter of 2021,” Ippolito said. “They will serve to protect accidentally exposed operators – he added – but I think they can also be useful in particularly critical populations, I am thinking of cancer patients who are being treated with drugs that can facilitate a more serious infection or even patients with compromised organs and then also large obese people who should have priority in vaccination ”.
