The secret study on Covid: who is Alberto Zoli, “the exponent of the Lombardy Region” who reported on Speranza

The study “secret” on the effects in Italy of a possible pandemic of Covid-19 “was presented to me by a exponent of the Lombardy region“. Reveal what happened at the meeting of the technical-scientific committee in which the document prepared by the mathematician was illustrated Stefano merler on the hypothetical impacts of the coronavirus in our country, it was yesterday Roberto Speranza there party of Daily fact. And now that exponent “of the Lombardy Region” has a name: it is Alberto Zoli, CEO of Areu, the Lombard company that deals with emergency and urgency services.

It’s February 12 and the workgroup of scientists meets at the Ministry of Health. Besides Speranza there is the vice minister Pierpaolo sileri, the heads of Civil Protection and the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro. That morning the crisis unit sought by the Conte government must face the important updates of thewho Geneva: for the first time the disease that worries the world and which at that time was mainly limited to China (of 43 thousand cases, 42 thousand) has a name. That is to say COVID-19. In addition, she must develop a plan in view of the meeting requested by Minister Speranza with the. homologs of G7 me European Union, the next day, in Brussels. But study is also on the agenda commissioned on January 22 from the ministry to the expert in mathematical models applied to pandemics. Zerler, in fact.

Make from speakerHowever, from what you’ve learned ilFattoQuotidiano.it, is not the Bruno Kessler Foundation researcher, but rather Alberto Zoli. Why? Zoli, on February 4, on the recommendation of the Conference of the Regions chaired by the President Stefano bonaccini, had been commissioned to represent the Regions. And that day it is he who reports the file that he estimates, taking into account a contagion rate of 1.3 and 1.7, the impressive consequences of Covid-19 in infected me intensive therapy. But the content of the study will not leave that room.

Zoli directs Areu since it exists, that is since 2008. Under his leadership, the community-based emergency management system was completely reorganized. In 2015, the doctor specialized in Hygiene and Prevention took care of the health of Expo. Before Areu’s birth, he was the medical director of theLecco hospital. According to the confidential lists of the managers subdivision – written in 2013 – which circulated among regional center-right politicians and discovered by the judicial police in an investigation linked to the World’s Fair, Zoli was listed as “excellent technician, no politics“But it is widely known as Protected League, so much so as to be appointed, four years ago, as papabile adviser of health of the then nascent board led by Roberto Maroni.

The first controversies about the existence of a “secret plan”, which later turned out to be a study, date back to the end of last April, when he spoke of it for the first time in catastrophic terms (“no red zones we would have had 600-800 thousand deaths“) The director general of health planning of the ministry, Andrea Urbani. And these days have been dusted by Matteo salvini what if Giorgia Meloni. According to the leader of the League, the executive would have hidden the file the Italians. And in this perspective is inserted the defense of Speranza, who brought up “the exponent of the Lombardy Region”. And that’s Zoli. Areu’s CEO, in fact, in addition to being a Cts member is also a component ofCrisis unit installed at Palazzo Lombardia. If it is true that the content of Merler’s study in February was flagged as “confidential,” it is equally true that the executive has covered – and still does cover – both roles. And that her experience has been spent both in the Ministry of Health and in Milan.

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