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The alternative to the blockade was possible, but “the government ignored it.” In a document sent on March 29 to Prime Minister Conte and Minister of Health Speranza, a group of Italian CNR researchers, del Ifn, the Institute of Nuclear Physics, the University of Camerino and Ricmass, the International Center for Materials Sciences in Rome, had outlined an alternative system to blockade to contain the spread of the virus, the ‘Search of cases and mobile tracking’ (CFMT). The group of scientists evaluated, quantitatively studying the temporal evolution of the cases of COVID-19 in several countries, that the epidemic could have stopped in Italy in times of the order of 20 days by doing lots of rapid tests, using cell phone-based contact tracing technologies and also isolating contagious people from their family.
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The letter, published exclusively on the website www.lettera150.it, is signed by professors Antonio Bianconi, Augusto Marcelli, Gaetano Campi, Andrea Perali, Giampietro Ravagnan, Andrea Crisanti. “We must follow the experience of democratic countries such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand that have used massive testing, traceability and isolation of those infected outside the family context,” explains Gianpietro Ravagnan, former professor of Microbiology at Cà Foscari University in Venice . , “Because it is clear that today families are the place par excellence for the spread of the Covid-19 disease. Often times, families cannot so much control the infected as they can avoid family groups that sometimes become condominiums. Instead, the reproduction factor can be eliminated in a short time by hosting subjects in Covid hotels under assisted quarantine conditions, with reduced costs compared to possible hospitalization. “” Once again, the government did not listen to the scientists. and in the end, after having lost precious months between the first and second waves, he had to take the archaic path of confinement “, says Giuseppe Valditara, coordinator of Lettera 150, the think tank that brings together some 250 academics from different disciplines. , “The document on the CfmT method demonstrates analytically that other solutions were and are possible.”
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