Brusaferro (Iss) after the protest of the Regions: “They are also in the control room. Data validated by all and shared with the ministry”

“The surveillance it manifests itself in a daily relationship between the Regions, the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Health ”. The president of the ISS Silvio Brusaferro intervenes in a hearing in Montecitorio after the Regions overnight they asked the government for “clarity” epidemiological criteria provided by dpcm divide the country into three risk areas. “There ‘control room’ The General Director of Health, Prevention and Planning, the Higher Institute of Health and three colleagues representing the northern, central and southern regions are represented. On a weekly basis, the data is analyzed, shared and validated, with a very precise process, between Regions, ISS and ministry and then assembled, through 21 indicators, on which a judgment of low, medium, moderate or high danger is expressed ”. Data that, therefore, will be the basis of the mechanism of new closings and that are always shared with governors and local authorities. However, according to them, there is a need for “transparency” in the processing of data by experts. Brusaferro then specifies that a high risk is not determined by the mere presence of a large number of cases.

“A system that has a significant number of new cases but that has a response capacity in its health services that does not compromise other health needs, will end in a moderate systemOn the contrary, a system that has even a limited number of infections but has critical issues in being able to specifically answer the question of health, including the one that is obviously not Covid will end up in the ‘high risk’ category“. These data, Brusaferro stresses,” will be surveyed and monitored weekly and will objectively address the level of risk. “Regarding the scenario in the coming months, the president of the ISS states:” There is a marked growth throughout the country and in some areas more pronounced than elsewhere and this requires an exclusion of virus containment and mitigation measures and then when we should have a slower spread, restrictive measures will be relaxed, which however will not mean ‘all free ‘- and concludes – we must face the coming months with this circulation for which we must maintain the minimum levels of caution “.