The data from the Influnet report, 762,000 Italians in bed last week alone, tells us that “the flu has returned worse than it left us in 2019 and took off like a rocket, we are back on the momentum of the 2009 flu in pre-season numbers. We already have important numbers at the end of November. Certainly today.” It’s also scary for everything it carries with it amount of flu viruses, pneumococcal diseases and even pneumonia. Someone says let’s put on masks again, I say not at all. These microorganisms should always circulate and spread, we should protect ourselves but how? For example, we’ve lost a lot of coverage for pneumococcal and pneumonia vaccinations, but also that for influenza.” So in Adnkronos Salute Matthew BassettiDirector of Infectious Diseases at the Policlinico San Martino Hospital in Genoa.
The influenza curve “will continue to grow because this is only the beginning,” warns the infectious disease specialist. “The infection rate today is very high among children Children, but where adults will reach and then the grandparents. Will the former lose a few days of school but will the grandparents end up in the hospital? Old people, – suggests Bassetti in conclusion, – in those two weeks that separate us from Christmas, instead of running for gifts, they run for the flu vaccine.
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