Covid, the true story of February’s “secret” study. And Salvini’s accusations compared to what happened at the beginning of the emergency

“They knew, ma they did nothing“. But also:” They have attorney million Italians without reason“. For days, at least a week, it is mainly Matteo salvini to accuse the government, according to him, of mismanaging the coronavirus emergency. What if Giorgia Meloni, in attacks a Giuseppe Conte, is a step back, the leader of the League even went so far as to affirm that the government is to blame for havingthousands of Italians sentenced to death“Until the letter published on Sunday Corriere della Sera, in which the opposition leader maintains that Conte “must explain to the whole country because he kept silent about the risks of the virus“, With reference to the document on possible scenarios presented to the Technical-Scientific Committee on February 12. But at the same time he accuses him of having “faced the emergency with dramatic superficiality“For” ignoring the advice of an expert on one less rigid closure, instead of total lock“In short, on the one hand I would have made too little but surprisingly on the other hand too. And the short served.

THE TRUE STORY OF THE “SECRET” STUDY – But Salvini’s criticisms are not explained only by the approach of an electoral appointment that is essential to measure the political temperature of the country, that is, Regional from September 20 to 21. There is, in fact, a very specific passage: the post about Republic part of the content of the so-called “secret plan” elaborated by Stefano merler of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and illustrated to Minister Speranza by the general director, Alberto Zoli, member of the CTS as delegate of the Conference of the Regions and general director of Areu, the company that deals with the emergency and urgency system in Lombardy. Not a novelty, Taking into account that Daily fact He had anticipated the existence of the study on March 28 and that the issue had exploded at the end of April, when the general director of health planning of the ministry had publicly pronounced on it for the first time, Andrea Urbani. Already then, before the brawl of the opposition, it was noticed that, aware of the plan considered “secret”, there was a manager who was part of the CTS but also of theLombardy Crisis Unit who worked side by side with Attilio fontana me Giulio Gallera. And that’s the mentioned Zorli, “announcer”, that day, from the studio.

HELP CHINA – Before the now famous February 12, the European Union had already sent 12 tons of Dpi to the Beijing government. The Italian Executive had been activated for days, as confirmed in Fatto.it from a CTS source, to come to the rescue of China who, that day, was recording 42 thousand infected, which represents almost 98% of cases worldwide. Thus, on the 15th, he sent to the Far East about 20 tons between masks, goggles, overalls and gloves. Germany, France, Austria and the United States are doing the same. For the center-rightHowever, Italian solidarity was counterproductive. Going to the rescue of the country most affected by Covid-19, they argue, was an own goal, because a short time later we would have needed it of health protection devices. It is true, but it is equally true that the virus, at that time, had not yet arrived – and hardly anyone predicted that it would spread so overwhelmingly – and above all it is true that the gesture of our government was paid generously from Beijing: In the first hundred days that Italy shocked, China provided us with around 25 million tons of Dpi per week, obviously both in the form of a sale and as a donation.

BEFORE PATIENT 1 – From the stages of Tuscany, Abruzzo and Puglia trodden these days by Salvini and Meloni in view of the Regionals, the same mantra almost always resounds, referring to two to three weeks who anticipated the discovery of the first official case of positivity in Codogno. And it is that: “The deniers were Conte and Zingaretti. While we requested quarantine for Chinese citizens, they responded that the only virus in circulation it was the racism“Assuming you want to undergo Covid skeptics motley hat From the first hour, both the head of government and the secretary of the Democratic Party, the same must be done with the experts that we have – or have brought – in the palm of our hands in recent months. While the Farnesina promised to take Niccolò home, the 17-year-old was trapped Wuhan, our virologists have already predicted theimpending epidemic peak. Going back a few days (February 2), when the state of emergency had already been declared, Roberto Burioni stated: “In Italy the risk is zero. The coronavirus is not there and constant alarms are not necessary ”. Fabrizio Pregliasco, two days later: “I agree with Burioni, the situation always seems better to me. Italian citizens you don’t have to be afraid“. Massimo clementi, who in 2003 isolated the Sars virus for the first time in San Raffaele, on February 5: “We must not worry excessively, the containment measures taken at the national and international level have been important. the More expensive? They are not for protection, they are like Linus blanket“. Matteo bassetti, 9: “The situation seems to be under control. No more catastrophic proclamations. Let the cassandras be quietthe reference is directed to Burioni, ed) “. Giovanni maga (Director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Pavia), 12: “The increase in new cases is slowing down, we could be close to the epidemic peak.” Finally, on the 14th, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC, the European Union agency that deals with disease prevention) defined “low” the risk of the virus spreading to Europe. The truth is that in that period the total number of cases, in the Old Continent, stopped at 43. In Italy, then, there were only three cases and they were all “imported” Chinese. And last but not least, they came from Beijing conflicting information that even WHO was struggling to decipher.

THE ORDER TO THE INTENSIVE CARE REGIONS – On the night of February 20-21 Mattia Maestri the first certified positive results. From that moment on, things change abruptly. Next to creation of the red areas In the ten municipalities in the Lodi area and in Vo ‘Euganeo, the government ends the first Dpcm, while the ordinances of the Ministry of Health are no longer counted (on the 23rd there will even be nine). It is in those days that CTS and executive, from the indications coming from the Regions, realize that there is a intensive therapy problem. There are 5,179 beds in the country. Too few, is the reasoning, if each region must go into suffering (that is, when it reaches the 30% threshold). Thus, on March 1, the government asks the presidents to increase the number of beds by 50% and duplicate those of the Pneumology and Infectious Diseases wards. Too late? In hindsight, probably yes. The question to be asked, instead, is: if the order had arrived two weeks earlier, when the virus still seemed far away, how would the presidents have reacted? Of what you have prepared ilFatto.it from Cts sources, in fact, there was resistance by some Regions even on March 1, when the situation had undoubtedly changed. Where the government wastes its time is in acquisition of fans for intensive care: it is March 5 when the Ministry of Health indicates to Civil Protection the need for 2,375 devices between CPAP ventilators and helmets. Here yes, too late.

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