Berlusconi, from San Raffaele assures: “Behind the powerful immune recovery there is no mystery. Treated with Remdesivir”

It will be for the ballet in Berlusconi “asymptomatic”, who then announces that he no longer has a fever or pain. It may be due to the controversy over the chain of contagion that involved one of the most powerful families in Italy; or by the story of a lion in a cage that accompanied the hospitalization in San Raffaele (title of the daily Libero: “Silvio doesn’t care: he also works with a fever”).

In fact, there are half of Italy that looking at the images of Silvio Berlusconi newly discharged – after one o’clock bilateral pneumonia – wonders what is behind the “miracle”. That is, how was it possible that an (almost) 84-year-old who suffered from previous chronic diseases – from the heart to diabetes and therefore, by definition, “fragile” – would present the Covid in about ten days; when the most of the elderly he simply did not meet his age, becoming the preferred victim in coronavirus mortality statistics. The mean age of SARS-CoV-2 positive deceased patients is 80 years.

According to the doctors who treated him, starting with his personal doctor Alberto Zangrillo, during hospitalization there was nothing different or particular compared to the therapies commonly administered to other patients. Without oxygen therapy, without experimentation with new treatments. Behind the “robust immune response”. cycles of Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug licensed to date by regulatory agencies for the treatment of Sars-Cov-2 virus infections. If used at the beginning, it is effective.

The attention around the case B. dal September 2 henceforth it was very high. To feed it they thought the same Zangrillo me Berlusconi. The first, which ended up on the grid for declaring the virus dead, initially decreased the severity of the infection, also causing friction between the relatives of the Forza Italia boss; just to say the opposite, talking about a viral load such that “in March I would be dead”. The concept was reiterated by Berlusconi himself at a press conference: “It was the highest viral load among the tens of thousands observed at San Raffaele.” A fact that Berlusconi had also joked about (“I’m always number one”).

Surely it draws attention to the fact that, although the elderly and young people affected by Covid could not leave home, they mostly ended up in intensive care, the elderly Berlusconi, in the past operated on for prostate cancer and aortic valve replacement, instead of staying home.absolute hypoglycemia he was hyperactive: he did politics in “smart work” from the hospital, for example, telephoning Fi senators on 9 September and then at the Val D’Aosta rally inviting them to vote. I was following the Mediaset-Vivendi-Tim party by phone.