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Covid, infections and deaths are growing again. Is it the sixth wave?

Let’s call it a new surge or sixth wave, in any case the result is this: Covid infections have reversed course and are returning to the center of attention. The Gimbe Foundation took care of it, with its weekly monitoring, to bring the spotlight back to the number of newly infected people in the Italian…

Covid Italy, the bulletin of June 16, 2022: 36,573 new and 64 deaths

The epidemic curve in Italy is still rising. There are 36,573 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, against 31,885 yesterday but above all 23,042 last Thursday. The swabs processed are 194,676 (yesterday 195,439) with the positivity rate flying from 16.4% to 18.8%. The deaths are 64 (yesterday 48). The total casualties since the…

Anthony Fauci in solitary confinement for Covid

Anthony Fauci, the well-known US immunologist and medical advisor to the White House, tested positive for Covid, and has mild symptoms. He announced the National Institute for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases (Niaid), of which he is director. Fauci is 81 years old and has been subjected to two vaccine boosters to date. The Institute…

Covid, a new rapid test will tell us how immune we are to the virus

Once the anti-Covid vaccine is done, how calm can you be at the thought of being protected from the virus? Basically how do we know to what extent we are immune, and for how long? To dispel these doubts is a new rapid swab capable of measuring the extent and duration of immunity to SARS-CoV-2,…

Modern Booster Updated Against Omicron: What We Should Expect

Excellent preliminary results from Moderna’s phase 2/3 trial for an updated booster vaccine are coming from the United States. The new mRNA1273-214 vaccine is a bivalent version of the old Moderna vaccine coupled with the new booster built on the Omicron variant. We have learned that viral circulation results in the accumulation of mutations and…

Omicron 5 triggers the infections, the identikit of the variant

After weeks of almost universal decline, Covid cases start to increase in different parts of the world: South Africa started, then the USA, now Europe too, with Portugal inaugurating the recovery and the other countries (Germany in primis) to follow, including Italy where the weekly incidence starts to rise after several days of increases compared…

Covid, those with a food allergy are better protected

From the beginning of the Covid19 pandemic, we immediately realized that some subjects were more severely affected by the disease than others. A parameter that correlates with the severity of the disease is age, in fact we know that the lethality rate doubles every 5 years and therefore the older subjects are those most at…

Covid, alarm for the latest variant of Omicron. And in Portugal the cases are already going back

Announced in South Africa and arrived quietly in Europe, Omicron’s BA.5 sub-variant could become a special surveillance: it is its presence that is linked to the sudden increase in Covid-19 cases in Portugal, it is the main suspect also for a increase in cases in Germany and, to close the circle, the first data arrive…