'Coronavirus is weakening and may disappear on its own': Italian doctor gave an optimistic forecast

The Italian infectious disease doctor believes that coronavirus has become less dangerous and can disappear on its own without a vaccine. Writes about it New York Post.

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Dr. Matteo Bassetti, head of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the San Martino Hospital (Italy), said the virus appears to have become weaker, possibly due to genetic mutations.

“My impression is that the virus is weakening,” Bassetti said. — In March and early April the picture was completely different. People were coming to the emergency department very sick, requiring oxygen and ventilation, and some developing pneumonia.”

“But over the past month, the picture has completely changed,” said Matteo.

“In March and April, the coronavirus was like an aggressive tiger, and now it’s like a wild cat,” Bassetti said. “Even elderly patients aged 80 or 90 now sit up in bed and breathe without assistance. Previously, the same patients would have died in two or three days.”

The doctor claims that one of the reasons for the weakening of the virus may be that he mutated in response to measures of social distance.

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“I think the virus has mutated because our immune system reacts to it and we now have a lower rate of infection due to quarantine, wearing masks, social distancing,” Matteo said. “We still have to figure out why the picture is different now.”

It is possible that the virus will be destroyed before the researchers find the vaccine, the expert shared his thoughts.

“We have fewer and fewer people who become infected, and this can lead to the extinction of the virus,” Bassetti emphasized.

But another specialist was less optimistic about the likelihood of the virus disappearing soon, saying it could take years.

“I don’t expect it to go away that quickly,” said Dr. Bharat Pankhania, a professor at the University of Exeter School of Medicine in Britain. — The coronavirus will disappear if there is no one for it to infect. If we have a successful vaccine, we will be able to do what we did with smallpox (a virus that humanity has managed to completely eradicate). But because it is highly contagious and widespread, it will not go away for a very long time.”

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