Holidays are approaching and experts are getting advice on how to sit at the table in Covid time. Meanwhile, today's data provided by the Ministry of Health continue to give rather comforting results. In fact, in the last 24 hours they have been recorded 14.522 new positive cases (13.318 yesterday) while new deaths are 553 (yesterday 628). The discharged healed are 20.494 (yesterday 20.315); altogether the positive cases are 598.816, 7.139 less than yesterday.
Bon ton at the table
“The table must be large enough to allow for a distance of at least one or one and a half meters between people. It would be good not to have the children sit next to their grandparents and remain seated as little as possible, or to eat more quickly, avoiding sitting around the table for hours, as often happens at Christmas ".
To provide a sort of handbook on how to reduce the risk of contagion at the table at Christmas Massimo Andreoni, scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious Diseases (Simit). During the meal, of course, maximum attention must be paid not to share plates, glasses and cutlery. In addition, he advises the infectious specialist ofUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, “It is good to open the windows often to ventilate the room. This does not mean having to eat with the windows open, but opening and closing them every now and then ”.
The vaccine is also to be recommended to those who have already had Covid
Following the authorization in Italy of the first anti Covid vaccine, Andreoni explains: “I would recommend the vaccine to everyone, even those who have already had Covid. Personally, I'll get vaccinated on the 28th, it's an important moment because we have what we've been waiting for for months ". As for the organization of the imposing vaccination campaign says, the expert says: "It seems to me that we are moving well, we have to make sure that the doses arrive, but I am confident".
Finally, returning to the high number of deaths still recorded in Italy, he underlines: "What counts is the average age of the population, which in Italy is very high, but I believe the high mortality is also a sign of how little Italy has been ready. on the management of Covid patients, in intensive care. We chased the epidemic by creating new jobs but the professionalism of a health worker cannot be created in a few weeks. This however - concludes Andreoni - is an ancient story of lack of investment in health care for years ”.
