Of “different variants” of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus “we will see many”. However “I would stick to what the World Health Organization has said: we have never been so close to the end of the pandemic, indeed I would add that we are at the end”. Thus to Adnkronos Salute Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the Laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and diagnostics of bioemergencies at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, in the aftermath of the alert of the European Medicines Agency Ema on a new wave of Covid-19 in arrival, with attention to sub-variants such as ‘Centaurus’ (Omicron BA.2.75) and Omicron BA.4.6 racing in the US, and after the words of US President Joe Biden who declared the pandemic over.
It is “unlikely” that the United States will be able to eradicate Covid-19 and, indeed, a new “suspicious” variant, Ba2.75.2, is on the horizon. To curb the triumphal announcement of the US president, his chief medical advisor, Anthony Fauc.
As for the role of vaccines in having determined the current positive picture, according to Gismondo “in a pandemic it is difficult to attribute responsibility for important consequences to a single factor. Vaccines have contributed to lowering the number of deaths – confirms the expert – not the circulation of the virus “.
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