Covid, the 10 errors about the pandemic and how they can be remedied, open letter to the Government of 10 academics.

“The sacrifices of the Italians, imprisoned for two months between March and April, have been discarded.” Between unconscious errors, erroneous assessments or commitments assumed and never fulfilled, the management of the Covid emergency in Italy has left everyone with a bad taste in their mouths. Not only the opposition and citizens, the latter increasingly overwhelmed by the situation and the Dpcm, but also Italian professionals and academics. And a significant part of them have just launched a “truth operation” to clarify the mistakes made and help the government in the future handling of the virus. “Not only so that everyone assumes their own responsibilities”, but above all to avoid their recurrence “when in the future, once the second wave is tamed, we find ourselves before the third.”

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THE POSTER
It can be read in the note with which ten Italian academics, including Luca Ricolfi, professor of data analysis at the University of Turin and president of the David Hume Foundation; Giovanni Orsina, tenured professor of contemporary history and director of the Luiss School of Government; Andrea Crisanti, professor of Microbiology and director of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padua and Giuseppe Valditara, professor of public and private law at the University of Turin, as well as coordinator of Lettera150, accompanied his manifesto.

A text in which they put in writing the “10 serious mistakes made by the institutions, and especially by the government, in handling the epidemic.” Yes, because, as the text underlines, in light of the Constitution (art. 117 and 120), the coordination and planning of policies to protect the health of Italians was the responsibility of Conte and his ministers. They are, therefore, responsible for the failure of the numerous files that, in recent months, have never been fully resolved, leaving the country in limbo. In fact, the massive swabs never arrived, the really safe schools, the accessible epidemiological data, the tracing of the contacts of the positives, the real respect of the ban on social gatherings and the sanctions, the 3,500 promised intensive therapies, the adequate distancing from public transport, availability of flu vaccines for all, investments in territorial medicine and Covid hotels.

Errors (and tips for Phase 3)

These are the issues on which “the government’s Caporetto was produced, as the evolution of the epidemic shows. But there is an alternative form for each of these dossiers and it is described in the manifesto (downloadable from the Hume Foundation and Lettera 150 think-tank websites) that contains the “10 things to do that haven’t been done”. Therefore, the text does not limit itself to identifying deficiencies, but also provides solutions elaborated and signed by Nicola Casagli, Pierluigi Contucci, Paolo Gasparini, Francesco Manfredi, Stefano Ruffo and Claudio Zucchelli.

All the excellencies of the country, aware that “the crucial problem of an epidemic is not bringing the number of infections to zero, but keeping it low when it seems that the worst has passed. To ensure this, you need the 10 things we have listed. But a commitment from the central government is also needed to “implement them in a short and determined term with a schedule that specifies costs, tools, stages of progress, completion dates.” The risk that we run is great and “is that, after the time of the closings, the one of the openings will give us back the same illusion in which we live this summer”.

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