They are impressive” the Covid numbers and “they tell us that it is a virus that has really moved around a lot. The almost 800 million cases reported” by the official counts “In my opinion they are vastly underestimated because they are precisely only those that are in some way official. It's probable that they should perhaps be multiplied by two or probably by three. Which would bring the total number of cases to over 2 billion people worldwide who have had this infection and of course diluting the lethality of the virus. Because the number of deaths does not change, while if the denominator increases it is clear that the lethality percentage drops. After these years “we can say that we won“. AND' the picture drawn at Adnkronos Salute by Matteo Bassettidirector of infectious diseases at the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa.
In a post on When this infection arrived, explains Bassetti, “it had a lethality that had an initial range between 3 and 5%, and in some moments in our country it even reached higher percentages. Today we can reasonably say that we are around 1%, if these are the numbers, but if they are the ones I was saying we are around 0.3% lethality, which means that we are now very close to the lethality of the flu“.
Bassetti's budget
The infectious disease specialist takes stock of what has happened and clarifies the point at which we find ourselves today, while this record-breaking flu season is underway in which Covid has been a co-protagonist with other pathogens, not the only character on the scene.
“Fundamentally – he observes – all this happened thanks to the enormous effort we have made, on the vaccination front, on drugs, on knowledge. Today we have a virus among us that is, let's say, like many others. And also the latest wave that he left us, I wouldn't call it that, I would call it true coexistence with the virus. This winter has made us understand that Covid is evidently not the only big problem.”
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