“It was an impressive season that must make us reflect on how to face the next one, increase vaccination coverage”, says the infectious disease specialist
“It was the worst flu season of the last 20 years: 15 million Italians affected means 1 in 4 had the flu, also considering that many were not ‘caught’ by the surveillance system and treated themselves staying at home. It has been an impressive season that must make us reflect on how to face the next one and how to increase vaccination coverage for the elderly and the frail, together with those for Covid and respiratory syncytial virus. This time we can’t say that we didn’t say it, in October it was already shaping up to be an aggressive season because all the warnings were there. We still did well in terms of assistance. Except for a few weeks of higher impact in the hospital, the season didn’t cause any problems. Now we’re already thinking until next time”. Making the point for Adnkronos Salute is Matteo Bassetti, director of infectious diseases at the San Martino polyclinic hospital in Genoa. Today with the weekly bulletin the RespiVirNet surveillance ends, which recorded a total of approximately 14,598,000 cases of flu-like syndromes since the start of the surveillance.
