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“We are at the limit of infections,” he warns Walter Ricciardi, the super-consultant of the Ministry of Health for the emergency COVID-19 and Italian member of the WHO board. “We are in better shape than other countries like France, because we made a series of decisions during and after the blockade, but now we are paying for the relaxation of the guard that occurred in the summer.”
What are the risks?
“It’s a domino effect: everything that happened with that feeling of ‘all free’ then determined cases that have been reproduced in families and now they are beginning to move to schools. We are still in a position to control these outbreaks. But we can’t go any further. This is an epidemic that at some point has an exponential growth. If you have three thousand cases today, after two weeks it is at fifteen thousand. We have to get it into our heads that we no longer have to go astray.
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Do you agree with the extension of the state of emergency beyond October 15?
“The government will decide based on the data. And since the data, I am sure, will be pejorative, it is necessary to maintain a state of emergency. At least until the numbers improve.
How will the government intervene in flights from risk areas, for which today there is a cushion on arrival? Could other countries be included in the list?
“Yes, there may be others. Greece now has good numbers, it doesn’t make sense to keep it in that group. There Britain instead, it has worrying figures, like Belgium and Denmark.
So could they be listed in place of Greece?
“If their data does not improve, they are countries to keep under control.”
Always with the obligatory tampons on arrival?
Yes, in our opinion that should become the system throughout Europe ”.
What are the times?
“Every week we take stock of the situation and make changes, both by adding countries and eliminating them.”
On the stadiums, the CTS made it clear: there are no conditions for new openings. You share?
“It really is not the time to lower your guard, favoring aggregations of thousands of people. We wait at least two weeks to see what is happening in the schools.
Another thorny issue, the resumption of lessons: there are already hundreds of cases. Do you have the feeling that the system is holding?
“There will be fatal infections, but for now it seems to me so. But let’s wait another two weeks.
We were talking about stadiums. The clubs are closed until October 7. Will the ban continue?
“Sorry to say, but clubs are not ‘open’ during an epidemic. I realize that it is a huge damage for those who do this work, but it is an absolutely incompatible environment, especially indoors.
Are hospitals ready for a second wave? The Ministry has allocated hundreds of millions to secure emergency rooms, for example, with differentiated routes for patients with Covid symptoms. Are the sanitary facilities ready today?
“The situation is not satisfactory, at least 2 out of every 3 hospitals are inadequate. Some regions like Emilia, Veneto and even Lazio are in good shape. Others are left behind, it is alarming.
Hospitalized Covid patients tripled in one month. Is the network ready for a second wave?
«Intensive therapy is ready, we have doubled the seats. For the sub-intensive therapies, which receive many more patients, I am concerned. The update happened in patches. They are a question mark.
Why does the Immuni app stop at 5 million downloads?
“The demagoguery has won, but the application is essential. Even now, departments that handle case tracking manually are struggling. And much less when there will be more cases. Consider Lazio, where contact tracing also works: it has 200 cases a day, each of which leads to investigations for 4,5,6 people. So you have to track a thousand people a day. Obviously, already like that, you’re in trouble. Downloading the application is essential. And there is something else we can all do.
Which?
“Get a flu shot. Temperatures have dropped, colds soon arrive, then the flu. All syndromes with the same symptoms as the coronavirus. If we are all vaccinated, we will know that the flu will be an unlikely event.
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