Berlusconi: “I thought I was going to die, I was afraid I would not succeed. Zangrillo’s phrases about the virus? He did not underestimate the symptoms with me”

“I had pain everywhere, he couldn’t stay in the same position for more than a minute. I was afraid of not making it“: Silvio Berlusconi This is how he remembers the first days of hospitalization at the San Raffaele hospital, the “hardest moments”, in which the former prime minister admits to being afraid of dying: “I was afraid for my life,” he reiterated several times in his interview with Corriere della Sera. The leader of Go Italy was hospitalized the night of September 3 after his positivity to the coronavirus: still today “I feel very tired, Exhausted. That is the characteristic of Covid ”, he explains.

In San Raffaele Berlusconi he was treated by his personal doctor Alberto Zangrillo, who in recent days had already partially portrayed his optimistic statements about the virus, defined as “clinically dead” now more than three months ago. “I think there has been a misunderstanding about this. Professor Zangrillo has expressed medical evaluations aimed at scientific debateBerlusconi responds to Messenger Service. “Perhaps – adds the former prime minister – be clinical and not political he underestimated the fact that they would be filmed, emphasized and basically misunderstood by the media. “” His was not at all an invitation to lower our guard – continues Berlusconi – after all, in my case certainly not underrated symptoms apparently mild which, however, hid one very serious situation for which ml has imposed a immediate hospitalization In the middle of the night “.

opposite to Flavio briatore, also admitted to San Raffaele and convinced that “phobias should not be fed”, Berlusconi’s tone is different: “The hardest moments – reports the FI leader – were the first three days in the hospital. I had pain everywhere, I couldn’t stay in the same position for more than a minute. He was afraid of not making it. In those moments I had them clear in my eyes terrible images of the hospitals we’ve all seen in recent months, intensive care, i intubated patients“I was told later that the viral load found in my tampon he was the tallest found at San Raffaele in thousands of swabs. So the risk was concrete and real ”, continues Berlusconi.

And when asked how his family is doing, he replies: “They are recovering, thank God none of them have experienced very serious symptoms. But believe me anguish Knowing that my children are sick and my grandchildren, who are still children, are also positive, is perhaps what made me feel worse. This is why I feel close to the pain of A lot of families which, like mine, have been checked by this terrible disease. I feel even closer to those who have lost a loved one, ”explains Berlusconi. Who then even directs advice to the sick: “Don’t get carried away, never lose hope of being cured.”

The former prime minister does not shy away from questions about politics and criticize the government, accused of never having involved the oppositions “In the management of these difficult months.” “We could also win anywhere,” Berlusconi says of voting in Regions, adding that the success “will confirm that the majority of the current government is not the majority of the country.” Compared to his allies in the Northern League, however, Berlusconi has another position in the Covid fight: “We all have a duty to respect the rules to prevent infections with the utmost rigor,” the former prime minister still recalls.