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Franco Bechis
The highest growth in infections by the virus since the end of August to the present has occurred in the age group from zero to 19 years, and therefore in the school population (to which obviously teachers and non-teaching staff should be added) . This is certified by the virus surveillance bulletin published yesterday morning by the Higher Institute of Health, which counts 102,419 infections in the school range until November 7, 19, which on August 25 were only 9,544. Therefore, the growth was 1,073.10%, the absolute highest of the Italian population.
In second place for infections in that period of time the group of young people between 20 and 29 years old, among whom there are also many university students. There were 18,834 on August 25, they went to 104,884 on November 7, with a percentage increase of 556.88% in just over two months. Growth is much lower in all other age groups, as can be seen in the table published today by Time.
So, the engine of the virus – the numbers indicate without a doubt – was the school population, and everything happened after the reopening of the schools that the government swore had been produced “safely.”
It is useless to talk about discos or nightlife gatherings: the number and pace of this growth say that the school was the origin of the second wave.
In addition, the local daily bulletins confirm it: today in Lazio alone there are 3,000 positive students and another 29,000 in isolation. The government’s silence on these data that even the ministers receive, with the sole exception of the owner of the school, Lucía Azzolina, who is rightly silent because of the shame and feeling of guilt that she must feel in the face of the obstinacy with the who defended “the safety” of the reopening of the school and with which for weeks he provided false data on infections.
Reality must be looked at without eyes clouded by ideology and when it is clear, decisions must be taken accordingly. Of course we do not know if the infections occurred at school or in the means of transport that used to go there, but the truth is that they exploded inside there and from there they left to immerse the whole of Italy in the new drama that lives.
Children are asymptomatic in most cases, but they have brought the virus into their homes and families, putting it back into motion even among adults and, sadly, the elderly.
The results are what we are seeing: yesterday since the pandemic began, infections have exceeded one million cases, and at the same time today there are 613,358 infected, a figure that has exceeded what experts have always considered the risk threshold.
Other data, however, is even more dramatic: 623 Italians died from this in a single day (and we had not seen such figures since April), 3,081 people are in intensive care and more than 29,000 hospitalized.
However, youth statistics do not show the persistence that still exists in keeping the school open. It is true that universities and high schools have been closed, and it has already been an important step, and that in the red zones the middle classes are also closing, but there is still a problem, although a small one.
We try to collect the reactions of government officials and political leaders of the national majority to whom yesterday we sent those tables with the age groups of those infected and we found the wall of silence. As always, the only one who was not ideological and willing to look reality in the face was the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, who examined the tables, commented: “Certainly the school, with all that it has meant also in terms of mobility and public transportation, contributed to the circulation of the infection. Taking into account the epidemic curve, we see how the increase that marks the beginning of the second wave occurs on October 2, two weeks after the school year! I don’t think there is any evidence that infections occurred in class … But everywhere there was certainly a lot of movement.
With the closure of part of the school, however, come some less negative signs about the growth of the contagion curve (it will be evaluated after November 15), and Sileri himself seems to cross his fingers: “Another consideration”, he adds , “curve: for a few days it seems to me that the slope is softening. With all the caution of the case … They could be the first signs of decline”.
We hope so too. Understanding the enormous usefulness of school for our children and realistically the fact that it would have been impossible to make the classes really safe (children and young people are not marble statues and they never stop), and knowing the organizational drama of Many families if children will stay at home, it is difficult to understand the stubbornness with which the main outbreak of infections does not want to close for a short time, allowing the health system to breathe and thus saving many human lives.
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