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In Lombardy, and especially in Milan, the situation is explosive. Although the President of the Region Attilio Fontana and the Mayor of Milan Beppe Sala insist on taking it out on the government, the The case tracking situation (the so-called contact tracking) is now definitely out of control. Yesterday Milan Ats (the city’s health protection agency) has communicated to all general practitioners that swabbing so-called “close contacts” (that is, those who have had interactions with a patient who tested positive for coronavirus) has already not considered a priority and will be temporarily suspended. Basically it is written that tampons will be made only to those who present symptoms of the disease but not to those who, despite established contact, are asymptomatic.
Medical Director Demicheli had already sounded the alarm: follow-up skipped
To tell the truth, the news is not so unexpected if we consider that already a fortnight ago the Milan Ats director Vittorio Demicheli had admitted that the contact tracing practically disappeared complaining of having only 150 markers available (the number tripled compared to the start of the pandemic) – an absolutely insufficient workforce to track the roughly 30-40 contacts each positive patient has had on average, given the rise in infections and seen the reactivation of social and professional life in recent weeks. During the blockade, each positive case had 3-4 contacts, today this number has increased to 30-40. The letter sent to the doctors is very clear and says that every day “almost four thousand new positive cases are registered”, about 20 times the number of cases in September, the curve is defined as “extremely relevant”. According to Ats Milano, ten thousand symptomatic people would already be registered only on the company’s portal. “Waiting times are inevitably expanding, which undoubtedly makes surveillance activity more complex and diagnostic activity is delayed,” writes the Ats, recommending that general practitioners explain to patients that they do not arrive. clinics for no reason quarantine for 14 days (therefore, the swab is also skipped on the 10th day of quarantine) and “suspend the execution of tampons for close contacts”. Vittorio Demicheli, in an interview with Corriere della Sera on contact tracing, says in no uncertain terms that “unfortunately contact tracing is delayed, despite efforts to strengthen operators aimed at tracing at-risk contacts and adoption of the car. -tracking “.
Rozza (Pd) – Without tracking close contacts, blocking is essential
“Having lost the question of close contacts, blocking is not only necessary but essential – says to Fanpage.it Carmela rozza, Regional Councilor of the Democratic Party – We risk having people locked up in infected houses and no one in the area will tell us how they are. In February they told us that the situation was caused by the tsunami that had struck suddenly and that is why they did what they could, now what do they tell us that nothing is working and there was time to organize the health of the territory that was not there and that was not organized? “. Gregory MammìThe regional councilor of M5S Lombardia, member of the Health Commission, tells Fanpage: “Why do we choose to complicate the use of fast tampons that are created, as mentioned in the premise of the Dgr, to simplify and make detection of the population is faster and more effective? Today it turns out that Ats Milano has sent a note to general practitioners urging them to stop prescribing molecular swabs for “close contacts with positives”, not to mention the possibility of detection by rapid swabs. always, chaos prevails! “.
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