Covid, Bassetti admits on La7: “Maybe my predictions were wrong.” And on the generalized confinement: “Doctors should not establish it”

“Probably the predictions, even the ones I made, were wrong. Unfortunately, a big wave of this infection has returned. none of us wanted to see again, finding in many situations doctors, health systems and systems already tired of a first wave that we had wanted to forget too soon“These are the words of Matteo bassetti, director of the hospital’s infectious diseases department San Martino of Genoa and member of the Liguria Covid-19 working group, during the broadcast “The air that shoots” (La7), on the extremely critical situation of Italian hospitals in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

The infectious disease specialist accuses: “Needless to say, it’s the fault of what didn’t happen this summer. No. Guilt is what we haven’t done for 30 years. The Germans have handled this situation better than anyone, because they have several intensive care places, hospitals, health organizations on the ground that are 10 times better than ours. So our problem comes from afar. When you make an economic reform and you take money from health, school, university, research, it is clear that in emergency situations you find yourself in difficulties ”.

Finally, Bassetti disagrees with his medical colleagues calling for a blockade throughout Italy: “I don’t think doctors should determine if a blockage is necessary. Our job is another and it must be to heal everyone and do it in the best way. The decision on confinement or not depends solely on politics. based on data provided by the world of medicine. What we did in March is unrepeatable. We cannot think of closing Italy again for two months, and not only for the economic issue, but also for health. We still have to recoup the benefits we lost for all non-covid patients between March and June. Have we forgotten? ”.