If monoclonals reduce deaths and hospitalizations by 85%, what’s the point of continuing the closures? There is a risk of political implosion
Yesterday a primary certainly not accused of giving false hope, that is, prof. Matteo Bassetti, stated that the patients he is treating with monoclonal antibodies (Regeneron from Glaxo.Smith or Eli Lily) are fine and that the cure rate is very high: practically three out of four patients return home. All in a situation "under control" in Liguria. The official rates of recovery are 85% for the Regeneron case and 70% for the Eli Lily case.
Let's ask ourselves a question: if there is an effective cure, even if linked to the early stages of the disease, which can be accompanied with useful home therapies, if we have increasingly refined rapid tests, what is the point of relying only on lockdown, indeed what is the sense of relying on lockdown in general. Isn't it better to focus on treatment, on strengthening the health system in dealing with covid-19, on vaccines, but reopen gradually and safely?
There was talk on Libero of a tough clash between the League component and the left-wing component in the government, linked precisely to the prospects of a continuation of the lockdown. Draghi tried to mediate, but the war between the damned and the guaranteed is increasingly evident. A part of Italy suffers from closures, partly for economic reasons, partly also for reasons of character, this psychological point. One cannot repress the economy for too long without causing social upheaval, one cannot repress personal freedom without an effect on the psyche and on sociality. But we have a part of society that is enjoying its golden moment: the guaranteed ones, those who always bring home the loaf, and who don't shine for courage and will to live. These, for the hands they have in the state, are now prevailing, but it cannot continue like this forever. Sooner or later the pot will burst.
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