Mauro Pistello

Mauro Pistello is a prominent Italian virologist and the director of the Virology Unit at the University Hospital of Pisa. He is noted for his significant contributions to the monitoring of COVID-19 variants in Italy as one of the founders of the sequencing network at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Recently, he has been in the news discussing the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in Italy, particularly emphasizing the need for booster vaccinations among vulnerable populations as new variants emerge.