Gismondo: “Covid of 2020 is gone, just create panic”

“Covid disease as we have seen it” in 2020 or “in the first year and a half” of the pandemicno longer exists“. So at Adnkronos Salute Maria Rita Gismondo, the director of the Laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and bioemergency diagnostics of the Sacco hospital in Milan.” Today Covid, or rather the Sars-CoV-2 infection, is a absolutely moderate disease, modest “, in itself.” Obviously “even with Omicron 5” attention must be paid to the frail, but as for any other pathology. I would say that the sport of creating panic really has to stop“.

And to those who predict “a terrible October”, the expert replies: “That in October there can be many infections is absolutely probable and we will see. But, I repeat, infections are one thing, Covid disease as we have seen it is another thing“.