” This virus , like the other coronaviruses that we have already known in the past, tends to go off on its own . It is so. It is well known in the scientific field that coronaviruses tend to give pandemics and then slowly they tend to go out. Especially when there is a reduction in their social entropy. Thanks to the lockdown, this virus, being unable to infect people who are closed in the home, no longer has the charge of spreading and therefore tends to turn itself off , to live a sort of programmed death. We hope this will happen quickly and it would seem that the first heat can help“This is what Francesco Le Foche, professor of immunology, immuno-infectious disease chief at the day hospital of the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome, spoke to Rai Radio2 microphones during the ‘I Lunatici’ format.
“Now we cannot say it with certainty, the lockdown prevents us from saying it with certainty, of course the contagion has reduced a lot and slowly this virus will lose strength.
We will see it better with the first heat when there will also be a reduction of the droplets that they will dry out and therefore will have less chance of passing from one person to another.
This virus – underlines the immunologist – will no longer have the strength it had, the one that put us in crisis , the one that brought many people at the same time to the hospital with need to be treated with intensive care “.
“This virus had its maximum explosion with intra-hospital infections. It has proliferated – he continues – in mono-block hospitals, which did not have the possibility of isolating the covid in the pavilions .
This enormous and contemporary infection has stressed our system health, there is now an important decompression given by the lockdown, decompression that has given us the opportunity to start a local medicine that is fundamental for public health “.
According to the professor, “to get rid of the virus completely we should have a vaccine. We know that there are various vaccine studies put in place, with different potentials.
The problem with this vaccine is that we don’t know if it will produce immunizing antibodies or not. I believe that today we should focus on other things. Here, on what we have said. Immediate therapies and medicine in the area.
I don’t think this vaccine is so indispensable in a year or a year and a half . Then, if there was this opportunity , welcome. ” “Only vaccinations – continues Le Foche – manage to make viruses disappear completely from the face of the earth. But if this virus behaves like sars is destined to disappear.
Being this a coronavirus for eighty percent identical to that of sars it should have had a pandemic phase that is now going out. I am an optimist and my optimism is based on science . “
Le Foche then explains that the importance of “public health that must be done on the territory. This virus has allowed us to better reevaluate this aspect, now there is a renaissance in public health, evaluations that we had a little will be acquired again.
“cuts. Health cuts and cuts in staff and funds have also led to the reduction of local medicine. Now we know. We will reorganize local medicine, because this, I repeat, is a virus that must not go to the hospital.”. By now the thing has been perceived as absolute truth, everyone has taken note of it. Even the minister of health in the last speeches has spoken of restructuring the health of the territory “.
” This will ensure – he continues – that there may be an active osmosis between the territory and the hospitals which will lead to high-profile public health. Now we have interpreted that if we can immediately treat the Coronavirus patient with few symptoms, the patient in the vast majority of cases does not need to enter the hospital. This is an inflammatory disease and like all inflammatory diseases, if treated at onset it does not cause serious damage “.
As for the return to a more or less normal life, “it is not to be considered so far. We must wait for the next two weeks, if things continue in this way within the first two weeks of May we will be able to go out and reorganize our society . If this virus will behave as it should and as the history of coronaviruses makes us think we could go back to our social life.
I don’t think we should greatly restrict our freedom and our social autonomy. ” Le Foche, however, does not think that summer holidays can be done outside of Italy, “but I believe that in Italy we can go on vacation “
