Covid, Bassetti: “In a month we risk 10 million Italians in quarantine”
“In a month we risk 10 million Italians in quarantine and the country stopped”: declares Matteo Bassetti, head of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, pointing the finger at the anti-Covid tracing rules, which he says are now useless.
“If we continue in this way to swab everyone, even those who have no symptoms or perhaps have a cold, what could happen on January 25 with maybe 1.5 million infected people? It would mean having 10 million people stopped and in quarantine ”the expert said in an interview with Lapresse.
“If we continue with these rules – adds Bassetti – for each person who tested positive for Covid-19 there are 50 people who must stay at home but now, due to the widespread spread of the virus, tracing no longer makes sense”.
“We have to stop thinking that if someone has a positive swab they think they have just left the Chernobyl nuclear reactor because they are not. By continuing with this strategy, in a month we risk having Italy at a standstill ”.
According to Bassetti, therefore, less alarmism would be needed: “We are witnessing a drop in lethality and vaccines work. Here, I would no longer like to find the usual suspects who shoot the biggest. While I would like to see many people who abandon ideology and think more about the country and get vaccinated. And I would like Natale to bring me the drugs to treat Covid and the new second generation monoclonal antibodies, more powerful “.
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