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Zaia press point December 9
Governor Luca Zaia returns live today, Wednesday, December 9, at 12:30 p.m. to take stock of the coronavirus emergency in Veneto. Last night, speaking with “Cartabianca” on Rai3, about the high number of infections in Veneto, he specified: «The really important data is not the absolute number of positives but the ratio between swabs and positives. In Veneto, this proportion is now 6.93% ”.
LIVE
AND GIVE
“Almost 3 million molecular swabs and 1,200,000 rapid swabs (73,000 in the last 24 hours). In the last 24 hours +2,427 positives and 29 deaths. There are 3,161 hospitalized (of which 346 in intensive care) ».
DOWNWARD TREND
«Tendency of timid descent in the regional context. We have had a gradual growth, without peaks compared to other regions. We are now at the top and we expect it to gradually decrease. We have fewer positives than in March, but some more hospitalizations. With a difference, in March we had three months of blockade, in this second wave we did not.
SOCIAL DISTANCE
“We need more attention to social distancing, it is essential to prevent the virus from circulating. Even yesterday I saw absurd situations, with people on the mountain despite the risk of avalanches. From the surveys we have carried out, it is a virus that will be present in 0.8% of the population: if I am with 100 people in a room, I have the statistical probability of having a person who can infect me ”
SO MANY POSITIVE BECAUSE WE MAKE SO MANY HISPITES
“We do a tampon massacre, we have a one-of-a-kind test model. That is why we have so many positives. If we doubled the swabs, there would be twice as many positives. This should be clear. Today in Veneto, the ratio between swabs and positives is 6.93%. The absolute number of positives doesn’t mean anything. What matters is the percentage of total tampons “
“We would like to understand officially,” he added, “and I have also discussed this with Professor Brusaferro, if the data are homogeneous at the national level. If you take the absolute data of the positives you have to explain that it is not comparable with other regions; some just do molecular swabs, some a bit quick, some load data, some have chosen to test population groups, and some have not. It is not a homogeneous data ».
VENETO REGION WITH MOST POSITIVE? IS NOT TRUE
“When I read headlines saying that Veneto is the region with the most positive aspects, that is not true. Veneto finds more positive than yes, but why are we going to look for them. It is not a happy island, but we are going to look for the positive aspects and we find them. In March it was said that there was the problem of finding the tampons, now there is the problem of not “charging” them all. It is a battle we do, but virtuosity should not be punished. There are regions with many more inhabitants than us that make fewer swabs “
VENETO’S TESTS AND STRATEGY
Dr. Francesca Russo (Veneto prevention service) spoke. “We have focused a lot on rapid tests to isolate positive subjects early. This increased the number of positives, because we added fast buffers to the molecules. It is a public health strategy. We also use the rapid test for all close contacts of the subject who then tests positive on the rapid and this further extends the analysis allowing us to intercept many asymptomatic positives. We went from a positive 44% to 13%, but it is a figure that cannot be compared with other regions because our method is different from the others. The important thing is to calculate the incidence of positives in 100,000 inhabitants.
“We had a gradual climb, we stopped at a kind of plateau and we are going down a bit. As of December 3, it was explained, there was a slight decrease compared to the previous week, from 433 to 413 positives out of every 100,000 inhabitants. «This – continued Russo – indicates that a slight and timid decline in the new positives begins. However, intensive care increases, since the “queue” of hospitalizations occurs when the incidence is higher. The new positives will drop soon and intensive care will increase “
“UNTIL THE VACCINE ARRIVES, I FEEL A TRAP”
“Until the vaccine arrives I feel trapped – added Dr. Russo -. The vaccine is essential: it will allow us to get out of this climate of restrictions and fears, in which we cannot continue living “
RT AND BANDS
In Veneto “the RT has always been below 1.25”, said Dr. Russo. “In our region, due to a series of conditions, it decreases more gradually and we have to wait for it to decrease slowly. However, the evaluation is made not only on this parameter: from the data that I have analyzed our scenario, for me, it is not such that it makes us slide towards the orange zone ».
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