Covid, Crisanti on La7: “Zaia’s reading of the infection boom in Veneto is wrong. It doesn’t depend on the many swabs, but on the rapid tests and the yellow zone” “

“Second Zaia the rise of infections in Veneto depends onlots of tampons? No, the reading is wrong. It is true that theoretically the more swabs are made, the more the chain of transmission is interrupted, but this must be followed by the decrease in cases and deaths. Here we have an unprecedented increase in cases and deaths“Thus, a “The air that shoots” (La7), Andrea Crisanti, director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology of the Hospital of Padua, denies the thesis of the regional president of Veneto Luca zaia, who today, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, attributed the high number of infections in his region to the thousands of swabs performed.

Crisanti, first of all, excludes that the increase in cases in Veneto is related to English variant of coronavirus: “The Veneto has done so far 36 complete virus sequences and none matches the English variant. So if fragments of the virus have been sequenced, and it seems that some share mutations, it does not mean that we are in the presence of the English variant and that it is responsible for the infections in Veneto.. In reality, the increase in infections and deaths is due to two factors. The first is the yellow zone, which was influenced or determined by these 21 parameters, among which the number of places in intensive care weighs a lot – he explains – this has created a paradoxical effect, by which the virus circulates because there are more places in intensive care. In that way, the more people get sick, the more people die in terms of probability. The other factor is related to the fact that Veneto has bet everything on quick swabs, which have low sensitivity and have allowed RSA to become infected. We have an unprecedented percentage of infected Rsa, precisely because staff have been ‘screened’ with quick swabs. “