Coronavirus: Too long quarantines and too many repeated swabs. Word of 250 academics
According to a document from the "Letter 150" think tank, continuing to provide longer terms "and in practice very uncertain for quarantine, and a repeated use of tampons to determine the end of isolation, risks burning precious resources in the period of greatest need . And to keep thousands of people in home imprisonment for no justified reason ".
The current ones on the management of Coronavirus followed by Italy in the field of tests and quarantines, with a more rigorous approach by the Scientific Technical Committee, "must be revised". This is what a document of " Lettera150 ", the think tank made up of about 250 academics from different disciplines , born on the wave of the Covid-19 emergency, claims .
WHAT SCIENTISTS SAY
According to university professors, in fact, if the recommendations issued in June by the World Health Organization are not implemented, "there is a risk of excessive and untargeted use of the ability to carry out tests to identify new cases of people infected with SARS- CoV-2 ″, as well as to discourage people, symptomatic or not, to undergo diagnostic tests given the impossibility of reasonably predicting an end of home isolation ”.
THE TERMS OF THE QUARANTINE
According to the document, continuing to foresee longer terms “and in practice very uncertain for quarantine, and a repeated use of tampons to determine the end of isolation, risks burning precious resources in the period of greatest need. And to keep thousands of people in home imprisonment for no justified reason ".
THE DURATION OF HOME ISOLATION DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT OF WHO
And the experts add: "To date, mandatory home isolation for positive Covid subjects extends to proven negativization by two swabs performed 24-48 hours apart after a period of at least 14 days from the resolution of symptoms". They explain, they are Guidelines that do not take into account the "Criteria for the termination of home isolation" of the World Health Organization (WHO), "which provide", reads the document, "that the quarantine ends for symptomatic people 10 days after onset of symptoms, plus at least 3 days without symptoms (including absence of fever and respiratory symptoms; for asymptomatic people 10 days after positive swab for SARS-CoV-2 ".
NEED TO ADAPT WHO GUIDELINES
It is urgent – concludes the document – that the indications of the WHO be taken into account, “declining them on the basis of the practice followed by the main European countries and the epidemiological evidence of recent months.
THE FRENCH EXAMPLE
France, which brought quarantine to just 7 days, indicates that we cannot waste any more time "
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/coronavirus-quarantene-troppo-lunghe-e-troppi-tamponi-ripetuti-parola-di-250-accademici/ on Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:50:24 +0000.