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If the reopening of schools It will have the same effect on Christmas infections, the situation will get complicated. Among older high school students there are many asymptomatic-phantom, unconscious, that they are about to return to the classroom. Look at the teacher Andrea Crisanti, from the University of Padua: «We will understand the consequences of going back to school only on October 15, after a month. I criticized some decisions taken, but today they must be applied seriously, the time for controversy is over. The government also has my plan of 400,000 tampons a day, which could be very useful.
But let’s start with the numbers to understand the possible impact of going back to school that, remember, not only affects children, but also young people, those aged 17-18, the same ones who traveled to Sardinia, Ibiza during the summer , Malta, Croatia or who have frequented the crowded squares of Rome. In the week of June 20-27 in Italy, 1,861 new positive cases were registered; well, in the summer queue, in the week between August 30 and September 6, the new positive cases multiplied by five: 9,416. Of course, in June the emergency shutdown and therefore, the initial base of those infected had been significantly reduced. But summer, with little respect for the rules, has objectively reignited the fire of contagion. In the last five weeks, the number of newly infected has steadily increased (many young, many asymptomatic, but not all, as the number of intensive care patients has also increased by 12 units in the last 24 hours, reaching 133).
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The weekly report of the control room of the Ministry of Health speaks of “1,799 active outbreaks, of which 649 new”. Experts fear that, as has also happened in other countries (Germany has been forced to close some schools), the reopening of schools will add fuel to the fire of the infection. Professor Roberto Cauda, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Catholic Heart University and director of the Gemelli Infectious Diseases Unit in Rome: «Schools must be restarted, we all agree. However, when evaluating the data, let’s remember that comparisons with June have contraindications, because far fewer swabs were done at that time. At school, respect for the rules will be necessary, but also everyone’s sense of responsibility: parents who do not have to send their children to school if they have a fever, older children from whom we must all ask an effort. We are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, research on some vaccines is far ahead. However, we must be cautious for a few more months, we cannot fail now. Masks, distances, staggered entry and exit times, teaching tests, quick swabs whenever there is a suspected case: there is a plan to reduce the epidemiological impact of the reopening of schools, but no expert denies that the return to classes will have an effect on the epidemic.
«Do you really think – asks Crisanti – that we managed to identify all the children who were infected on vacation or at nightclubs? Obviously not. “Summary: There are hundreds of asymptomatic ghosts on their way back to school.
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