“The truth is still on Covid” and asks to invest in science
Today the virologist’s book is out in the bookstore Giorgio Palùpresident of Aifa, entitled “Originally, the virus that changed our lives”. The professor, in an interview with RunSerahe affirms that to push him in this initiative “was seeing the discipline debased by virologists that the scientific community does not recognize as such “. He then explains that he attended a meeting in Washington in 2014, when the American government appointed a commission that decided to abolish manipulations of respiratory virusesfrom which, however, due to the opposition of a colleague from the Wuhan laboratory, the coronavirus. It was in fact still necessary to study the Mers.
But, asks the journalist Margherita De Bac, could Sars-Cov-2 have escaped? “We don’t know if it is topple over it was natural or it was a accident“Replies Palù, adding that”we won’t know until the Chinese break the silence. They did not want to hand over the laboratory tests or respond to WHO orders “. He then emphasizes that no intermediate animal host was found that made a bridge between bat and man.
In the management of future emergencies, for the president of Aifa, “we need aEuropean organization“specifies.” Now it exists, but it’s a bureaucratic office. Other pandemics will come “, warns the expert, for which it is later needed”invest in science“and focus” on the high-tech pharmaceutical industry “.” We then learned – Palù states – that respiratory viruses must be combated following the sick at home, not in the hospital “. “Almost all European countries have a own vaccine, British, German, French and Spanish. We don’t “, she notes, hoping for a vaccine prepared on the latest Omicron variant, including the original strain.