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Zaia against Crisanti. Or rather: the Veneto that denies the virologist’s reconstruction appeared in the journal Nature. A few weeks ago the Director of Prevention of the Region, Francesca Russo, sent a letter – now revealed by Bruno Vespa in his book “Why Italy loved Mussolini (and how he survived the dictatorship of the virus) published by Mondadori Rai Libri – to the magazine to distance itself from an article in which the professor attributes the authorship of the first round of tampons to Vo ‘Euganeo, carried out instead by the Padua health company, at the choice of the governor, between February 23 and 29. Crisanti points out that this decision is decisive for Veneto’s strategy against Covid. On other occasions, the virologist had attributed the choice to Zaia, but in his article in “Nature” he does not mention it. The research, among other things, was also funded partly by the Region.
There had already been some tension between the Region and the virologist in mid-February with the choice of the virologist to carry out tests on those returning from China, a choice attributed to the Chinese community and of which neither the general director of Venetian Health, Domenico Mantoan, nor the general director of the Padua company were unaware joins hospital and university, Luciano Flor. In the following weeks, in full emergency, there was a clarification and Zaia’s decision to support Crisanti’s research – later published in «Nature» – in Vo ‘with 150 thousand euros.
The study highlighted that no statistically significant difference was found in the viral load of symptomatic versus asymptomatic infections. “It is good that Nature has taken all the time necessary to assess the robustness of the data before giving the go-ahead, because the rush to publish runs the risk of downgrading the quality of many studies,” Crisanti said.
So here is the answer. Very hard.. «The publication», Russo’s letter reads, «has altered the facts, distorting reality and disconcerting what happened to Vo ‘. All relevant decisions on how to deal with the outbreak originated at the Schiavonìa Hospital, where the first two patients residing in Sars-CoV-2 positive Vo ‘were hospitalized, and were made jointly by the president of the Veneto region . with the Prevention and Public Health Directorate of the Region and with the health authorities of the Ulss 6 Euganea Company. All of this happened even before Vo’s study was conceived. In fact, the swabs began after the hospital had already been evacuated and after the isolation and confinement of the Municipality of Vo ‘was ordered. Furthermore, the blockade was still in progress at the time of the second sampling. ‘ And again: “It is not true that two surveys of the resident population of Vo ‘were conducted less than two weeks apart, to investigate the exposure of the population to Sars-CoV-2 before and after the closure. (…) It is not true that (…) this study guided the strategy adopted by the Veneto Region and that this test and trace strategy had a significant impact on the course of the epidemic in Veneto compared to other regions Italian. The Vo ‘case has had a minimal strategic impact on the approach of the Veneto region to face the epidemic, since so far it only has 5 deaths and 83 positive cases in the municipality, while other outbreaks have simultaneously broken out in the municipality itself. community. bigger and the test and trace strategy was already in place.
October 28, 2020 (change October 28, 2020 | 11:39)
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