Just a few days ago, the frontman of The Kolors Stash He told in a video posted on Instagram that he was again positive at Covid and all the critical issues he had to face when he fell ill at first during the pandemic. A narrative that, although personal, reported attention on the topicality of the virusremembering how has not disappeared at all.
Despite the Pandemic Emergency State has been concluded for some time, in the summer of 2025 the Sars-Cov-2 Coronavirus recorded in Italy a slight recovery of the contagions (In the world the week from 28 July to 3 August 2025 the positivity rate average was of the 4 %while in Europe, the data was higher, up to 17 %. Source: World Health Organization, Whodadot).
According to the most recent updates of the Ministry of Health and of theHigher Institute of Healththe numbers they have Started again starting from end of June. This trend also fits into a context of Strong reduction of swabswhich makes one complex precise estimate from the real diffusion of the virus.
It is a low but constant increase, which reports how the virus continues to circulate, even in a period, summer, traditionally less favorable to the spread of respiratory diseases, and in a social context in which the perception of a attenuated risk prevails. «Monitoring is now more difficult because the swabs they are no longer mandatory and many are performed privately », specifies the Professor Fabrizio Pregliascocompany health director of theIRCCS Galeazzi Hospital – Sant’Ambrogio. «The latest estimates speak of about 2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants with an RT index of 1.34, a sign of slight growth. However, no increases in hospitalizations or intensive care are not observed ».
An endemic presence
“Today Covid is no longer an emergency but remains present,” continues Pregliasco. “It is turning into one endemic condition: we must get used to considering it as a constant presence, with periodic waves of rally. It is a bit like the effect of waves created by a stone launched in a pond: gradually less intense, but still perceptible. On average, every six months a new variant appears, capable of reinfecting even those who have already had the virus or have vaccinated. Fortunately, we always remain in the context of Untovarriants of Murotherefore with less aggressive clinical forms. They currently circulate above all Nb.1.8.1 (Nimbus) and the variant XFGnicknamed Straus».
Vaccinations and fragility
Pregliasco underlines two fundamental aspects, namely that the mutation make the virus more elusive to immune memory and therefore the “immune response itself It is less lasting than other respiratory infections ». Because of this The protection of the vaccine lasts about six months: «They are needed regular referencesbut unfortunately only 10% of the over 60 has vaccinated in the last year. Yet it is precisely the elderly and fragiles that risk the worst consequences: last week, in Como, ten deaths were recorded between elderly patients ».
The symptoms today
Even if Covid manifests itself with new variants, the symptomatology has not changed: substantially remained the same as we met this virus.
Rather, «as well as at the beginning, the symptoms are very variable from person to person: For some, the infection starts asymptomaticly, for others, in a very heavy way, with all the corollary of symptoms that we remember ».
Therapies and antiviral
For fragile patients, there is the possibility of resorting for free to Paxlovid as indicated by AIFA, A specific antiviral for Covid, prescribed by the family doctor. «It is a drug based on two active ingredients, Nirmatrelvir And ritonavirfor the early treatment of the virus. For the youngest and healthy, the therapy remains based on anti -inflammatory and possibly cortisone ».
Behaviors and prevention
Pregliasco reiterates the importance of good hygienic and social practices:
- mask in crowded environments or contact with fragile,
- Hand hygiene
- respiratory hygiene: cover nose and mouth when it is toy or sneeze, with a handkerchief or inner of the elbow.
- Distancing: maintain a certain distance from those who show respiratory symptoms, in particular if masks are not worn.
«We know well that Covid, like other respiratory infections, can also have consequences to long term “concludes Professor Pregliasco. “For this reason it is worth avoiding it as much as possible. The mask should become a habit like the seat belt: not an imposed obligation, but one choice of common sense».
Source: Vanity Fair
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