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Giuliano Zulin
In Qingdao, a large Chinese city of 11 million people overlooking the Yellow Sea, 12 Covid positives were discovered a few days ago. The order started immediately from Beijing: rub everyone to stop infections. So the municipality of the megalopolis southeast of the capital began with a ‘titanic operation– The goal is to test the inhabitants in five days. We repeat: 9 million tests to be carried out in 5 days. Well, yesterday morning over 7.5 million people appeared to have undergone molecular swabs. The Qingdao Municipal Health Commission has announced that so far more than 4.06 million of the samples collected have been analyzed and, except for the cases already reported (just over a dozen), no others have been detected. positive. The Ansa news agency reports that Chen Wansheng, a municipal official, explained how five cities in the Shandong region joined Qingdao to help manage and analyze the swabs, and more than 1,200 people were sent to the city to help with the proof. More than 10,000 doctors and 20,000 volunteers were mobilized. According to Zhang Huaqiang of the municipal health commission, it was adopted to improve efficiency a mixed test approach. In practice, “If a ’10 in 1′ sample is positive, we inform the 10 people to undergo isolation and independent testing to better identify the carrier of the disease.”
Other movie – From China to Rome. Other movie. The Covid-19 crisis unit of the Lazio Region has communicated the situation of expectations to the regional drive-ins. Asl Roma 1: Labaro 110 cars queuing for the exam, San Giovanni 91 (and 253 people queuing on the pedestrian promenade), Santa Maria della Pietà 82; Asl Roma 2: Togliatti 200, Odescalchi 90, Campus Biomedico 198, Istituto Zooprofilattico 250, Santa Lucia Ardeatina 35. Do you understand then why in the ancient celestial empire there is no increase in infected, while we continue to ascend? IS the different approach. However, without certainly praising the Chinese communist regime, it must be emphasized that Beijing aims to attack the virus, identify it as soon as possible to isolate it to safeguard society, health and the economy. The Italian and generally Western attitude is instead wait and see.
We wait for the Crown and then we try to increase the number of beds. Only Luca zaiaHe was the first to realize the power of prevention. The first drive-ins, which are the places where medical personnel wait for potential infected people to perform swabs outside hospitals, began at the end of March in Veneto. And immediately afterwards in Emilia-Romagna and gradually in the different Regions. Sure, you needed staff and reagents to run the tests. Months ago both were in short supply, now there are everything except the machines that process the tests are missing. In practice, as Lorenzo Mottola wrote a few days ago in Libero, a funnel is formed that does not allow the proliferation of tampons. We are not talking about bureaucracy or jealousy among white coats, which do not allow private companies to speed up the mapping of infections in Italy. Bottom line: we are behind.
Costs and benefits – In reality, we said, it is the entire West that has perhaps taken the wrong approach, remaining on the defensive. In April, the Rockefeller Foundation made a calculation: If in the United States we made 30 million tampons a week, we would be back to normal as soon as possible. Of course, at that time swabs cost: 30 million exams would have required $ 100 billion. Almost 400 billion a month. An awkwardness. But how much the American and European social fabric has lost in terms of GDP, employment and trust. The $ 11.7 trillion printed by central banks or distributed by governments has not saved the (still struggling) economy or defeated the disease. Wasn’t it better then to “rub” everyone? Did you need resources and staff? Obviously, but the health and financial costs would have been lower. According to the data published yesterday, Friuli Venezia-Giulia carried out 496 swabs for every 100,000 inhabitants, Veneto 430, Emilia Romagna 350, Lombardy 289, Lazio 263, Campania 196, Puglia 145, Sicily 140 and Calabria 125 (negative Italian record) . Mortality, these figures are proportional to the rate of occupation of hospital beds by more or less serious patients. It really is true: who finds a tampon finds a treasure.
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