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AGI – The alternative to confinement was possible, but “the government ignored it”. In a document sent on March 29 to Prime Minister Conte and Minister of Health Speranza, a group of Italian researchers from the CNR, the IFN, the Institute of Nuclear Physics, the University of Camerino and Ricmass, the Rome Internationale The Science Center of the Materials, had outlined an alternative system to blocking to contain the spread of the virus, the ‘Case Search and Mobile Trace’ (CFMT).
the group of scientists, under the name ‘Lettera150’, assessed, through the quantitative study of the temporal evolution of Covid-19 cases in different countries, that the epidemic could have stopped in Italy in times of the order of 20 days by doing many rapid tests, using telephone-based contact tracking technologies cell phone, and also isolate contagious people from your family.
The letter (published exclusively on the website www.lettera150.it) is signed by professors Antonio Bianconi, Augusto Marcelli, Gaetano Campi, Andrea Perali, Giampietro Ravagnan, Andrea Crisanti.
“We must follow the experience of democratic countries like Korea, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand that have used massive testing, traceability and isolation of the infected outside of family contexts“, explains Gianpietro Ravagnan, Professor of Microbiology at Ca ‘Foscari University in Venice,” because it is evident that today families are the place par excellence for the spread of the Covid-19 disease. “
“Families – continues Ravagnan – are often unable to handle the infected person and avoid family groups that then sometimes turn into condominiums. Instead, the reproduction factor can be eliminated in a short time by lodging subjects in Covid hotels. under assisted quarantine conditions, with reduced costs compared to those of a possible hospitalization ”.
“Once again the government has not listened to the scientists and in the end, after having lost precious months between the first and second waves, he had to take the archaic path of confinement “, says Giuseppe Valditara, coordinator of Lettera150, the think tank that brings together about 250 academics from different disciplines” . on the CFMT method it demonstrates analytically that other solutions were and are possible “.
