The widows of the Conte government criticize Figliuolo but forget Hope
We must acknowledge two merits to the emergency commissioner, General Figliuolo. The first: to have multiplied by four the daily doses of vaccines. We have gone from 60,000 doses in Arcuri's time to 250,000 today, with peaks of over 300,000 injections. It's enough? Absolutely not. The goal of half a million doses, which should have been reached according to the general between 14 and 20 April, is still far away, but there has been a change of gear compared to Arcuri's petal management.
Second reason: the first vaccines arrived in Italy on December 27, the Draghi government took office on February 13, 2021 and Arcuri was replaced by General Figliuolo only on March 1. It is evident that, in just two months, no government and no commissioner in the world would have been able to remedy the failures of a year of yellow-red management, from the absence of an operational strategy in the vaccination campaign to the failure to update the pandemic plan, which remained to 2006, and now one of the aspects targeted by the Bergamo Public Prosecutor's Office.
Added to this are the continuing uncertainties of AIFA and EMA about the Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine and the most recent stop to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the US after some rare suspected cases of thrombosis – mind you: six cases out of almost seven million of inoculated doses.
Within this bankruptcy context, some Italian newspapers reserve a fire treatment for the new commissioner for the Covid emergency. From the words of Crisanti at the beginning of March ("if we had ten million vaccines we would not know how to distribute them"), to the outburst of the Murgia ("to me personally it scares me to have a commissioner who runs with the uniform, I have never suffered the fascination of the uniform ”), Up to the editorials of the Fatto Quotidiano , which has not yet digested the fall of the Conte II government, Figliuolo is the object of daily attacks by the widows of the Arcuri line.
Let me be clear: criticism is a must, especially in a country where the vaccination campaign, after four months, has not yet taken off.
Despite everything, it is difficult to see the same uncompromising treatment towards the number one in the management of the emergency: the health minister Roberto Speranza.
After hastily withdrew the book in which the minister celebrated himself precisely for the management of the health emergency ( Atlantico Quotidiano analyzed it with a beautiful review by Andrea Venanzoni), the shadows on Speranza's work are also lengthening for the Ranieri Guerra case , the number two of the World Health Organization investigated by the Prosecutor of Bergamo for false information to prosecutors. Guerra would have exerted pressure on Francesco Zambon, a researcher of the WHO European division, to modify the report in which Italy's total unpreparedness in facing the pandemic was documented. And the head of the cabinet of Minister Speranza was aware of these pressures and, indeed, recommended that the report fall on deaf ears.
As guarantors, we allow ourselves to evaluate only the political plan. There can be only two explanations: either Speranza was aware of the facts – and therefore he must resign – or he was unaware of anything, and therefore he must resign for obvious inability to manage.
Considering the delays in the calls for new intensive care – open in mid-October 2020 – and in the hiring of doctors and nurses, the absence of a pandemic plan, which was updated 15 years earlier, the publication of the book immediately withdrawn, the sector ski resort ready to reopen and mocked a few hours earlier, it is perhaps appropriate to shift attention from General Figliuolo, who is still at the beginning of his office, to Minister Speranza, who after more than a year should begin to give some explanations and, perhaps, submit his resignation, freeing Prime Minister Draghi from growing embarrassment.
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