Capua confident: “Italy one step away from the tipping point”

“I think Italy is one step away from the inflection point, things are better, the situation is more under control”: is the opinion of virologist Ilaria Capua, who spoke on Focus Live. To combat the virus, what will come will necessarily be the “Christmas of close relatives” because “we cannot allow ourselves to pretend that the virus does not exist or that it is not capable of causing even worse damage.” “We must avoid winter and be prepared – he concluded – for a spring of rebirth.”

“Vaccines will not get us out of the situation alone”: this is how the virologist warns, according to which “they are only one of the tools used to manage and progressively reduce the impact of the emergency” but “the vaccine is not magic”. The vaccines “will not get us out of winter, maybe they will come in late winter but it could take a month to achieve immunity.”

“I hope that in 5 or 10 years this coronavirus will become the new cold virus”: is Capua’s wish on Focus Live. The virologist explained that the cold is a coronavirus that has stabilized in the human population, circulating without causing harm: “I do not exclude that the coronaviruses that circulated in humans 100 years ago came from a bat, but at that time -he continued- There was no acceleration of movements that there is today, that coronavirus perhaps took 100 years to go around the world and in the meantime it has lost its virulence. ”And the virologist hopes that the same will happen with this coronavirus, in a much shorter time.