Quote Originally Posted by baggieal View Post
Thanks Dubs - very interesting! I would bet infections will start to increase again. Pubs near us are being stupid and serving beers in carry out plastic cups so car parks and fields are being turned into beer gardens. Stupid as normal rules are alcohol should be consumed on the premises so seems like this will end in tears. All for things getting back to normal if sensible!
COVID-19 is losing its potency and no longer clinically exists in Italy, a senior Italian doctor has claimed.

Dr Alberto Zangrillo, the head of Milan's San Raffaele Hospital in the hard-hit Lombardy region, said the new coronavirus has become much less lethal, with newly infected patients having weaker symptoms than a couple of months ago.
The comments caused a storm in Italy, a country that is slowly emerging from one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, with the president of the scientific body that advises the government saying he was "baffled" at the claim.

A study conducted at the San Raffaele hospital found that the number of viruses present in people who tested positive decreased significantly between March and May.
"The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago," Dr Zangrillo told RAI television.
Following the analysis of 200 patients and comparing the viral load present in samples taken with a swab, the virus has "enormously weakened", according to Massimo Clementi, director of the Microbiology and Virology Laboratory of San Raffaele.
Another Italian doctor from a hospital in Genoa has echoed these views.

Lucia Binding
News reporter @luciabinding
Have heard this recently as well.........but with restrictions been loosened everywhere......perhaps it is timely....but if the virus load is weakening...that would be pretty good......lets see!!