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An article published today by the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero is titled “Covid, the hidden epidemic of Trento: ghost swabs and false data”, which puts the finger on the sore of antigenic swab counts.
«There is a piece of Italy – writes the newspaper – free from the epidemic. Or better, where miraculously the Sars CoV-2 runs very little and has affected only 0.45% of the population, less than half of the 1.1% registered yesterday by the Italian average and four times less than the same figure in Veneto. or Campania ».
The node highlighted the provincial decision not to communicate positivity to the new coronavirus detected by rapid antigen tests, despite the decision in early November treat them in all respects as contagions (therefore to formalize the quarantine obligation) and not confirm them with the immediate execution of a molecular swab (the only data, the latter, which is then sent for inclusion in the official tables of the ministry).
It goes without saying that in this way a large number of positive subjects have been left out of the national epidemiological registry, with all the relative repercussions on the system of indicators used to define the risk band in which to insert an administrative area, in this case the Province Autonomous from Trento, which has always been in the yellow zone.
This, despite a critical hospital situation, with strong pressure on the wards (which is still continuing) and particularly high mortality (819 deaths since the start of the pandemic yesterday).
The article therefore stigmatizes this Trentino procedure and emphasizes that the other regions behave differently and, as Venetian President Luca Zaia has repeatedly pointed out, they always confirm the rapid test with the molecular one, so that issue regularly ends up in the ministry’s statistics. Not only: in Veneto, even close contacts are subject to this analysis procedure.
In Trentino things work differently and the justification given by Piazza Dante refers to the communication obligations provided by the ministry, which are limited to molecular tests. But, obviously, one wonders what is the scenario seen by Rome if instead of molecular swabs rapid tests are carried out in many suspected cases and that’s it. This practice changes the big picture.
Furthermore, these “positive ghosts” identified with the quick swab are then included in the official lists communicated by Trento in Rome as recovered persons, after the end-of-term verification carried out with a molecular swab.
The Roman newspaper also reports the comment of the former rector of Trentino Davide Bassi, who for a long time disputes, numbers in hand, the provincial communications Considering them significantly underestimated: «’It is a scandal unworthy of a European company, like that of Trentino, with transparency in its DNA. Three questions beg for an answer: who should pay for the higher mortality caused by the widespread low alarm in Trentino? What damage has been done to neighboring regions that have behaved correctly by closing schools or businesses? And why do the ministry and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità hold each other by the nose?
Trentino’s color problem also worries the South Tyrol provincial council, which yesterday saw the confirmation of the orange strip of Rome, while waiting for the transition to the yellow: «It is absurd: it is solely and exclusively a political decision, without scientific basis. It is not possible to continue like this: South Tyrol needs more autonomy. I do not make it an ethnic issue, but a fundamental one. We have all the best indicators compared to Trentino. However, they are yellow, we are still oranges: it is a tragedy, ”says Health Councilor Thomas Widmann scathingly.
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