Coronavirus has weakened and could die out on its own without a vaccine, an Italian doctor has claimed – but many scientists do not agree.
Professor Matteo Bassetti, head of infectious diseases at Genoa's San Martino General Hospital, believes the Covid-19 virus is "changing in severity" and patients who would once have died quickly are now surviving."It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it's like a wild cat," he claimed to the Sunday Telegraph."Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help."The same patients would have died in two or three days before."He claims the virus may have mutated to become less deadly, resulting in fewer deaths."In March and early April.