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Reuters
I am thirteen viral strains that infected Italy last winter and with which the vaccination campaign that will begin in a few days will have to deal. All of these “bloodlines” came from abroad. The second pandemic wave, on the other hand, we build at home. We have been neglected as citizens and the institutions have not followed the outbreaks as they should.
Even the third could prove, painfully to us, that social distancing policies may be of limited effectiveness if we don’t stop the small local clusters, little more than family, that keep the pandemic alive, and if we don’t reorganize mobility. that spreads it. These are some of the innovations that emerge from the international study that has just been published by the Biomedical Campus of the University of Rome.
The research is signed by Massimo Ciccozzi and Marta Giovanetti (Unicampus of Rome), Marco Salemi (University of Florida), Davide Zella (Human Institute of Virology of Baltimore) and by a long series of researchers from around the world, including Luiz Carlos. Junior Alcantara, from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Eleonora Cella from the University of Florida, Tulio de Oliveira from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, Cameron Browne from the University of Lafayette (USA) and José Lourenco, from the University of Oxford.
The study shows that the government’s three-step strategy “significantly reduced the number of infections and hospital admissions during the summer, but there is evidence of continued viral spread among a few small groups that act as ‘hidden reservoirs.’
These are small groups of individuals capable of exploding the concept of RT: if the viral transmission average is two, a superdiffuser can effectively infect the entire population of the restricted environment with which it is in contact, be it a family, a RSA, a hospital or diners at a dinner … Small clusters are thus formed, which become real time bombs. They remain silent but are ready to explode at the slightest loosening of the blockade.
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