From Monday Marche, Liguria, Veneto and the autonomous province of Trento go yellow. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, signed the ordinance after the alert threshold in the three parameters for the color change was exceeded. According to the weekly monitoring of the ISS, 9 Regions exceed the alert threshold – set at 10% – of employment in intensive care. Meanwhile, the progression of infections has registered a new peak: it has been for over a year, since the end of November 2020, that there have been no more than 28 thousand cases in one day.
These are the direct consequences of the Omicron variant that is shaking the governments of Europe and beyond. The Hong Kong study that has done so much in recent days seems to show an impact of the superior variant on the bronchi (where the virus replicates 70 times more than the original variants) compared to the lungs (where it seems to affect 10 times less). A detail that may have actually made the disease less aggressive.
Tim Spector, chief scientist of the Zoe app said that most infected people no longer suffer from the classic “triad” of persistent cough, fever and loss of smell and taste. His team has yet to collect “accurate data” on Omicron’s symptoms, but initial results suggest they are very different from Delta, presenting milder and more cold-like patterns than previous variants. “In principle – said Professor Spector – what we are seeing now is that most of the people who test positive for the molecular swab actually have cold-like symptoms and do not have the classic triad that we used to previously. In fact, a milder symptomatic condition emerged that to many people looks like a severe cold “.
How does all this translate? Lighter symptoms mean fewer tampons. And hence the greater spread of the virus. “People can no longer wait to suffer from loss of taste and smell, or persistent cough, to take a tampon. It is essential not to underestimate symptoms such as the common cold, or a simple headache, because more than 50% of people who present themselves without the classic symptoms of Covid, still test positive “.
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