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Locatelli (Css): “We will not relive the lockdown”
The Italian numbers of the epidemic «must alert us and not alarm us. Above all, it should be made clear that what we faced last spring, the lockdown, we will not relive. Closure is not taken into consideration. Now the country is prepared, there are still therapies to slow down the disease, vaccines and effective medicines such as monoclonal antibodies will soon arrive ». This was assured by Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Health Council and member of the CTS, in an interview with Republic. Faced with the increase in cases, “we need a reminder of responsibility for behavior. To distance, to masks, to hand washing. But now it is really crucial to avoid crowds. An aspect that sometimes is not fully assessed in its importance », underlines Locatelli. Regarding the possible weight of the reopening of schools, «I believe that the school is not yet impacting on the number of infections. Little time has passed since the opening and in any case there are stringent measures and careful paths to guarantee the safety of both those who work there and those who go there, ”says the expert. On the increase in numbers in intensive care, “we are reaching almost 300 hospitalized, while we were below 50. This data testifies to the unchanged ability of the virus to cause very serious damage to the organism of those who are infected,” Locatelli notes. “I believe that unfortunately this is the most obvious denial of those who said that the virus has lost the power to induce serious damage in fragile people”.
