“The third wave will be there”

12/16/2020 Italy

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PADOVA – “Veneto is the only region where” the 21-parameter strategy “is not working, because there have been no restrictions here, and we start from a fairly high level of infections. He said it the immunologist from the University of Padua Antonella Viola, intervened in Agorà in RaiTre.

Covid, parameters, meetings

What is the best action strategy according to the immunologist? “This makes sense intervene locally, where the index is rising ”, the expert later highlighted. It is necessary “to maintain a line, we have equipped ourselves with 21 parameters and we must maintain them long enough to understand if the strategy works or not,” Viola added.

We are in the middle of a pandemic and “more controls against meetings are needed We have seen it in Rome and Milan. We can manage the situation by necessarily intervening in the meetings. Antonella Viola emphasized again.

Arrives in January with few infections

“From my point of view the priority is to arrive in January with a very low number of infections, to be able to open schools. So if the goal of a Christmas lock is to reopen the schools, I am absolutely in favor ”.

Reopening of schools

The immunologist explained again. “Reopening schools a week before Christmas holidays – he explained – does not seem to be the case. Reopen in January, with a very high number of infections, I see it complicated, although all studies already show that schools are not the engine of infection. But the virus also enters schools. And managing the epidemic within the school from a diagnostic, testing and protocol point of view is complicated. We must try to reach January with low numbers to be able to open schools safely.