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New government measures to curb new coronavirus infections from January 7th? “Insufficient” and, presumably, “will be subverted by the data for the next few days, as has happened in the past.” Professor Walter Ricciardi, scientific director of the Maugeri Institutes and consultant to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, still faces dark times at the epidemiological level before the curve goes down again and the measures can be relax. Already the data of the last days “we can see a negative evolution of the pandemic”, and within two weeks “we will have a non-trivial increase in contagion”, explains Ricciardi in an interview with The impression.
Because if it is true that Italy “did very well in the first phase of the pandemic”, in the second phase it had to deal with more failures. First, “Test and follow-up control has been lost” and, consequently, “the emergency shutdown“And now, according to Minister Speranza’s advisor,” only prolonged closures can bring the situation back under control. “And also the reopening of schools, scheduled for January 7th, “It does not make sense”, and according to Professor Ricciardi, and “should be postponed at least until mid-January”, when we should control the state of contagion.
The third wave
But the third wave is almost upon us, if it hasn’t already started, partly due to delays in emergency shutdown and because of the missed traces and evidence that contributed to the spread of the virus, in part because of the rallies that were created despite the stricter red-zone measures. After all, underlines Professor Ricciardi, “if measures are taken, they must be enforced, because declarations of intent do not stop infections.” But also on the testing and tracking front, many Regions should recover “what in several cases was lost this summer”, which is “the strengthening of the territorial organization and home care teams.”
Delays in vaccinations
Finally, there is the chapter on vaccines, whose slow use and administration is causing much controversy, since low of the twenty% of the doses used, to date, in national average. “Unfortunately, having the vaccine does not automatically mean being able to use it”, Ricciardi observes, hoping that after this first phase “entrusted to the Regions”, the pace will improve “with the start of the national campaign of the commissioner” led by Domenico Arcuri. Of course, Ricciardi admits, “if we had moved earlier the car would have been run over”, and it will be necessary to use gyms, sports halls and other structures in addition to hospitals. And in this “titanic enterprise” of vaccination of 50 million of people, which is also a race against time, it will be necessary to use all possible resources as in the first wave, including medical specialists.
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