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For the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, there would be no case in Veneto. The rise in infections reached during the second wave of Covid-19 could be explained by the record number of tampons processed every 24 hours. A reading that, however, does not convince Andrea Crisanti. “This is a statistical question. The more swabs you do, the more the chains of transmission are disrupted; true, by doing a lot of swabs, you would initially see an increase in cases, but this would be followed by a drastic drop in infections and Here, on the other hand, we are witnessing a constant increase in cases and in the number of unprecedented deaths. So it is precisely the reading that is wrong “, thunders a The air that pulls in La7, the director of the Microbiology and Virology laboratory of the Hospital de Padua.
Behind the high number of new daily cases would be, for Crisanti, the failures of the color zone classification system introduced by the government and the abuse of “unreliable” quick swabsin fact, they proved essential to speed up the time of diagnosis and follow-up. And precisely not counting the rapid tests (but not the cases that tested positive) in the total calculation of the swabs processed would be responsible, according to Governor Zaia, for an increasing false positive rate. An analysis denied by the professor at the University of Padua. “The problem of Veneto, the increase in infections and deaths, is fundamentally linked – emphasizes Crisanti – to two factors. The first is the yellow zone, which has been influenced or determined by these 21 parameters, among which The number of parking spaces ICU has thus created a paradoxical effect where the virus circulates because there are more ICU places, so the more people get sick, the more people die in terms of probability. The other factor is related to the fact that Veneto has focused everything on quick swabs, which have low sensitivity and have allowed Rsa to become infected. We have an unprecedented percentage of infected with Rsa, precisely because staff have been ‘screened’ with quick swabs. “
Also the alibi of English variant of Sars-Cov2, useless to justify the record increase in cases in Veneto. “Veneto has made 36 complete sequences of the virus so far and none correspond to the English variant. So, if virus fragments have been sequenced, and it seems that some share mutations, it does not mean – says the director of the Microbiology and Virology laboratory in Padua – that we are in the presence of the English variant and that this is responsible for the infections in Veneto “.
