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Andrea Crisanti the most watched on TV and on the web, capable of overshadowing the superstar of the start of the pandemic Roberto Burioni. But also one of the least consistent, although in good company with Giorgio Palù me Maria Rita Gismondo, against the virtuous Fabrizio Pregliasco. Giving the votes to Italian virologists, who have become true media oracles, is an investigation by Reputation science, a company specialized in analysis and reputation management that evaluated the quantity and quality of communication of Italian scientists, researchers and doctors about Covid-19.
The verdicts are multiple. Fabrizio Pregliasco the most coherent, Andrea Crisanti the most ‘present’ in the public communications of the experts from February 1 to November 20. More than 120 scientists with significant media impact were selected. In total, they have generated more than 70 thousand online content between the web and social networks.
In the factor ‘presence‘in the first place is the microbiologist and virologist from the University of Padua Andrea Crisanti who, in the 3 periods analyzed (February-May; June-August; September-November), remains at the top of the stock ranking both in the second and third periods, respectively with 20% and 18%, while the first months of the pandemic saw Roberto Burioni on the podium with 26%.
Reputation Science then examined the ‘sample’ of more than 120 statements made to the media through 3 numerical indexes: the alert index (that is, the average opinion of the expert on the solutions to contain the pandemic) and the degree of consistency. among the various opinions expressed over time by each. The alert index was evaluated on a scale ranging from -5 (minimum containment measures) to +5 (maximum containment measures).
Expert positions run almost the entire range: they range from the most cautious of Pregliasco, Ricciardi, Galli, Locatelli and Burioni (+ 4.5 / + 3.5) to those totally opposed to Zangrillo (-2) e Bassetti (-3).
In detail, for 6 out of 12 virologists the Sars-CoV-2 virus is very dangerous, the other 6 have manifested at least once that it does not have a high mortality; the blocking is favored by 3 quarters of the champion, while a quarter is against; only 6 experts in favor of the curfew; More than one in 2 virologists do not consider the data published by the Government on the progress of the pandemic to be reliable; even in the Immune App, a tool publicly supported by the government to monitor infection, there is no unanimity: only 8 out of 12 virologists consider it useful.
Regarding the consistency index, expressed on a scale from 1 to 10, Fabrizio Pregliasco with 9.67 totaled the highest score, followed closely by Franco Locatelli (9.11); to follow: Matteo Bassetti (8.02); Massimo Galli (7.57); Antonella Viola (7.49); Walter Ricciardi (6.41); Roberto Burioni (4.21); Alberto Zangrillo (4.13); Ilaria Capua (3.95). The lowest consistency index is of the 3 experts whose statements were most inconsistent in the reference period examined: in tenth place Giorgio Palù with a consistency index of 3.09, in eleventh Andrea Crisanti (3.05), to twelfth Maria Rita Gismondo (0.75).
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