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PADOV – “If at this time I was the head of the Scientific Committee I would probably do three things: I would ask for theunconditional access to all Italian mobility data, but also behavior and population density to understand where are the areas of greatest risk. This was stated by Andrea Crisanti, head of Microbiology of Padua.
Mobile phones under control
Then “I would map the risk,” he added, “and clearly close these areas or rely on contrast agents for these areas.” This “would save some time – he noted – because basically the problem is time: it would give me time to create an active surveillance system and the entire information translation system in action that would allow me, once the cases are downloaded, to reset everything, a containment of 3-4 weeks, and then give way to active surveillance instruments, including Immune, to keep cases low. ”For Crisanti,“ there is no point in making strict blocks if we cannot find a way to consolidate the results. We cannot afford these ups and downs indefinitely. “
Block a Natale?
“I don’t want a Christmas closure for charity, I just said that it was the order of things if cases continued to increase with this dynamic. I must tell the truth that they also surprised me. Andrea Crisanti said again. The closure on the end of the year holidays, he repeated, “had advantages: schools were stopped, a week was added, we had 4 weeks to restart schools, production activities are reduced, commercial activities are somehow preserved, perhaps by tightening security measures, and certainly in this way the cases would be reduced. It would have allowed us – he concluded – to restart. ”
Quick test problems
In Italy in 5 months we have not built a surveillance network worthy of the name ”. The accusation is made by Professor Andrea Crisanti, head of Microbiology at Padua. “Now there is a spasmodic fever in these quick tests – He said – they have gigantic problems ».
Science subject to politics
“If we find ourselves in this situation, the credit goes to the technical-scientific committee that has aligned itself with political expectations, and it is wrong”: the accusation is made by the microbiologist Andrea Crisanti who spoke in a debate organized by DigitalMeet, a festival digital taking these days in Padua. Crisanti said that a lockdown at this point would only be partially helpful, but then the situation would get worse again.
“Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon are private companies that have at their disposal an enormous amount of data on the movements and traceability of people – he stressed – data that if made available to those who plan social and economic life would be unfortunately we did not get it. “Crisanti also stated that he had delivered a document to the Government at the end of August in which he gave the lines to get out of the crisis that Italy was facing:” They have not listened to me – he added – we do not need tampons, we need buffers that allow us to block positives and stop the chain of infections. That’s why we need more, potentially they were activities that cost little. “Without knowing how the virus moves, a lockdown now only serves to block the situation – he concluded – but then it will take a third, a quarter, what is needed is information and tracking, otherwise we will continue sailing in a stormy sea without landing anywhere.
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