“This way we avoid making other mistakes” Bassetti’s anti Covid recipe

“No more errors in Covid-19“. Say it is the teacher Matteo bassetti, specialist in infectious diseases at the San Martino hospital in Genoa and consultant for the Coronavirus Emergency in Liguria. “A new year has begun with many problems still open. – write in a post on Facebook –In Italy we are still struggling with the so-called “second wave”. The positivity rate has decreased, but not significantly, especially since there is circulation of the disease with numerous swabs performed on symptomatic subjects.“.

The “third wave” is yet to come. With temperatures plummeting, experts say, the virus will acquire new life, unleashing a new wake contagion. However, with a strategy aimed at containing the infection, it will be possible to contain its effects. “We must return to the territorial control system according to ministerial parameters, – suggests Bassetti, which should probably be simplified and streamlined: we cannot decide on the basis of data from two weeks earlier. It is necessary to intervene surgically on data of infections and recent and recent hospitalizations. Some regions still have full hospitals and ICUs and any resurgence of infection would be difficult to manage. “

The “anti Covid recipe” proposed byinfectious disease specialist San Martino’s offers five easy “steps”. First, constant monitoring of the data, making the results of antigenic swabs similar to those of traditional tests. “Some things must be done – says Bassetti – to avoid mistakes already made in 2019: – calculate the positivity index in all swabs made, including antigenic ones. Some regions have developed these monitoring and diagnostic systems very well. In Liguria, for example, yesterday the positivity rate was 11.7% calculating the molecular swabs and dropped to 7.8% adding the antigens. It is understood that an account is to have almost 12%, an account less than 8% real – to know how many cases of COVID-19 are followed at home by territorial medicine, as is normally done for the flu and to know their health status – to know every day how many deaths have been from interstitial pneumonia, from other complications of COVID-19 disease and how many from other causes in the course of positivity for SarsCoV-2 “.

The management of vaccination campaign by developing a precise schedule for the administration of the serum. “We need to know in the coming months when and where Italians will be vaccinated. If an Italian is 55 years old, he must know when his turn will be, at least have an idea of ​​the month ….. “, adds the expert. Then, gloss with a stiletta:”Avoid always looking abroad to decide what to do. We did it first with France and then with Germany. In Italy we have experts in infectious diseases, microbiology, virology and hygiene among the best in the world with exceptional curricula.“.