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Rome, September 15, 2020 – Stop in Italy at double negative buffer. Request the Government, Minister of Health, Scientific technical committee For the Coronavirus emergency and the institutions to abandon this criterion, according to which “in Italy a patient with Covid-19 is considered contagious as long as the swab gives a negative result twice, with often paradoxical consequences for the duration of the quarantine “scientists from Transversal pact for science (Pts), who relaunches the appeal came a few weeks ago by the authors of the social page ‘Optimism pills’, the day the CTS evaluates the reduction to 10 days of the quarantine for contacts. For some time theWorld Health Organization “has abandoned this criterion – they emphasize – on the basis of growing and consolidated scientific evidence: contagion period, which begins about 48 hours before symptoms appear, peaks in the first few days, then rapidly subsides, and essentially disappears within 10 days. On the contrary, the swab positivity it can stay that way for many weeks. “
According to the scientists, therefore, “adopting, as a result of almost all other countries, the WHO criterion would have significant and immediate benefits not only for the people involved, but also for public health,” say the scientists of the PT. “In fact, the fear of being isolated Without a temporarily defined term, it constitutes a dangerous incentive for those who get sick to hide their symptoms, as well as the use of the tracking App ”.
Meanwhile, the meeting in which the experts of the Cts (Scientific Technical Committee) will be evaluating the hypothesis of reducing the quarantine 14 to 10 days.
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