VIDEO | Covid, the epidemiologist Ciccozzi: “Today it is Mip-C and it no longer causes damage”

"It is a new disease and can lead to many important pathologies, but thanks to vaccines we are at peace"

ROME – “It is a new disease, it seems that it is similar to another autoimmune pathology. But we do not yet have scientific data on this. We are calm and calm: Covid has done damage, but now it is not doing it more thanks to vaccinations. If we then want to talk about autoimmune diseases, Covid in general can lead to many other pathologies, including important ones. So it is better not to catch it and, if you do catch it, it is better to be vaccinated”. Thus theepidemiologist Massimo Ciccozzi, head of the Department of Molecular Epidemiology at the Campus Biomedico University of Rome, asked by Dire regarding theMip-C strong> (MDA5 autoimmunity and interstitial pneumonia contemporary with Covid), a disease linked to Covid and similar to another rare autoimmune disease, anti-MDA5 positive dermatomyositis, usually diagnosed in people originating from the extreme east, such as China and Japan.

According to the international group of researchers who discovered it, Mip-C is a potentially lethal disease. The study, published in the scientific journal ‘eBioMedicine’ (of the ‘The Lancet’ group), was conducted by a team of Anglo-American researchers, led by Dennis McGonagle and Pradipta Ghosh, who analyzed a group of Yorkshire patients positive for an autoimmune disease linked to the MDA5 enzyme (Melanoma differentiation-associated protein-5). An increase in cases has therefore been observed in correlation to the Covid-19 pandemic. This led the authors to distinguish a new form: MIP-C (MDA5-autoimmunity and Interstitial Pneumonitis Contemporaneous with the COVID-19 Pandemic).