Pregliasco: ‘Masks until vaccinated at 70%’

ROME – “The risk is the third wave” of Covid-19 “which is an almost certain fact. This problem exists and the third wave will depend on us. Because this virus continues in its action, it looks for all susceptible subjects, it wants to spread great” . The warning is issued by Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologist at the University of Milan, today ad Agora on Rai3. “Beyond some genetic variations that it has had,” explained the expert, the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus remains “substantially the same as the first moment and now we must continue in this containment work. realizing this is a marathon, not a sprint. ”

Data analysis

And during the marathon, Pregliasco continued, “it takes a few moments to catch our breath. We can do this and the Dpcm also allows it, but we must not exploit it to the maximum because in fact we will have to go below 10,000 cases. I would be very happy if there were at least 5-10 thousand to be able to re-predict the tracking and identification of those outbreaks that are now lost ”.

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Regarding the current Covid-19 figures in the country, Pregliasco stressed that “a comparison with other countries is always difficult, because the notification methods are different. We will have to better evaluate the more raw data, which is global mortality because Covid sometimes contributes in a decisive and unique way, sometimes as a cofactor, regarding situations of fragility. It is true that for most of the patients we lose today, these are effects of pathologies that have been acquired “at different times”, a times in the expansive phase of the second wave, therefore, a race of demanding suffering ”.

So, apart from the “getting better” number of cases and the “reduction in ICU attendance”, this aspect of deaths should be seen as “something that will improve in two or three weeks, but the risk is now the third wave ”, Reiterated the virologist.

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Herd immunity target

Precautions such as masks “we will have to maintain them until we achieve herd immunity, which requires 60-70% of people to be vaccinated” against Covid. Pregliasco later specified that “Great Britain wanted, for political reasons, to burn everyone to show its independence, but the lady” who became famous as the first vaccinated “was not the first. We must thank the tens of thousands of people who underwent vaccination during clinical trials. “

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“The speed with which we will achieve herd immunity – continued Pregliasco, scientific director of the Galeazzi Institute in Milan – will make us more free, not very free. We cannot think that the vaccine will eliminate the spread of the virus, there will be a quota of susceptible subjects and therefore it will be necessary to continue with these precautions throughout 2020 and 2021 ”.

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Regarding the duration of Pfizer’s vaccination protection, the expert specified, “the virologists of the bar have learned phases 1-2-3 of the vaccine experimentation, but it is phase 4, pharmacovigilance, the that will allow us to evaluate the Trend of vaccination coverage and its duration “. It is, he concluded, “an in-depth evaluation of the characteristics of the vaccine, its safety and the rarer adverse events, which is part of the history of every pharmaceutical procedure.”