“Twenty days to avoid closure, the government did not want to listen to us” – Corriere.it

Twenty days would have been enough to avoid confinement. Lots of quick tests, mobile phone contact tracking, Covid hotels scattered all over Italy would suffice. That’s the CFMT method: case search and mobile tracking. It would have been enough to follow the document that two hundred and fifty scientists had sent to the government in March, signed, among others, by the virologist Andrea Crisanti. The government did not listen to us.

Letter 150.

On March 29, in a document addressed to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, a group of Italian researchers from the CNR, Dell’Infn, the University of Camerino and Ricmass had outlined an alternative system to the blockade on containment of The spread of the virus, the scientists grouped together in Letter 150, the think tank coordinated by Giuseppe Valditara, write today.

Widespread Covid Hotels

It is clear that today families are the quintessential place for the spread of Covid 19 disease, says Gianpietro Ravagnan, former Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at Ca Foscari University in Venice. And he adds: Families often can’t so much handle the infected as they can avoid family groups that are later turned into condominiums. Instead, the reproduction factor can be reduced in a short time by housing the subjects in the Covid hotel under assisted quarantine conditions, with reduced costs compared to those of a possible hospitalization.