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Professor Matteo Bassetti wanted to explain the situation we are now experiencing in Italy with regard to the coronavirus. The director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, speaking with AdnKronos, stressed that compared to a few weeks ago, we now see more patients Old people hospitalized because they contracted Covid. However, he specified that this happens because they are fragile subjects, in which the virus can aggravate an existing problem. For example, in patients with diabetes, heart disease, respiratory problems or who are following multiple therapies. And then it must be said that in the elderly the pathology has a different impact.
Bassetti: “More than 99% now recover”
The infectious disease specialist noted that “Today the disease has a decidedly lower mortality, 0.4-0.6%, and in 99.6% of cases it is cured.” Again as stated by Bassetti, there was a slight increase in the average age of the positive subjects due to the effect of the holiday period. Boys are the ones who have traveled the most and therefore have been more exposed to the virus. Once they returned home, they also carried the infection to the family. However, what has changed, as Bassetti highlights, is only the age of those infected and not of the patients. The professor said that he admits only those over 80 with clinical situations very different from those observed in the months of March and April.
The professor also claimed that he had no deceased for some time.
“It is true, the sea is shaking, but of 40 thousand infections only 5% need treatment. In the warm months of the emergency we had peaks of 25-30% of positives that needed treatment in intensive care” Bassetti added. The reason is for several reasons: now cases are identified immediately, more swabs are done, and the lethality of the virus has been reduced. At the end of August, Bassetti had already spoken of the decrease in viral load and that most of the positives are now asymptomatic. In fact, the increase in cases does not coincide with a peak in hospitalizations. There has also been a decrease in severe cases. However, the infectious disease specialist does not believe that we can get out of this situation in just six months, it will take years. Therefore, we will have to learn to live with the virus also because, the teacher fears, when the vaccine , many will not.
