Covid, collective saliva extractions at school: Galli’s idea

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On Friday, August 29, in Italy, 99,108 swabs: made it possible to find 1,444 new positives. A strategy that has been advocated for some time by the expert Andrea Chrysanthemums, facing the emergency in Veneto, but also from Maximum Galli, director of infectious diseases at the Sacco in Milan. He spoke about it in the Fatto Quotidiano.

According to Galli, we are currently finding more people asymptomatic because “we are still looking for them” especially “in those who return from vacation”. But, he stresses, “there are not only Greece, Spain, Malta, Croatia and Sardinia: of movide and there have been discos open all over Italy ”. However, identifying the asymptomatic is essential because “they are the reservoir of the virus, a risk for the most fragile: if we do not look for them we would run the risk of finding ourselves again with the infection spread throughout the population”.

For Galli, therefore, “Crisanti is right when he talks about 300 thousand tampons per day. An expense that must be incurred is not avoidable. Crisanti’s accounts are correct ”.

Covid and Galli on new cases at RSA in Lombardy

The Lombardy is always the first Region in the ranking of new almost diary. Sprouts have also returned Rsa: “Someone immediately said ‘okay, these people are asymptomatic’. Not so, some are hospitalized by me and simply asymptomatic are not. Probably the virus entered as it had in other RSAs at the beginning of the pandemic, brought by someone from the personal, since the contacts between guests and relatives are limited. Periodic staff checks are needed – this is why we are proposing to the School staff“.

Covid, saliva samples in schools: Galli’s idea

Finally, a step in the school. Galli explains that “we are working on virus research in saliva samples from various people studied in swimming pools. If you want to do a test in a classroom, one thing is to make 30 swabs, another is to ask all the children for a little saliva every 7 or 15 days, collect the material and analyze this sample. If a positivity is found then you do the test at all, but only in this case. “

For the expert, in fact, this “would be a much less invasive and more sustainable way of monitoring the situation. Some works in the literature describe it, we are trying to understand if it can work ”.

VIRGILIO NEWS | 08/30/2020 07:53