Mat pads yes or no? Clash (from a distance) Crisanti-Bassetti
Andrea Crisanti presented a plan to the government to carry out swabs, but for Matteo Bassetti such a solution would paralyze the country.
Carpet pads yes, carpet pads no. This is the dilemma. How to deal with the upcoming winter months? How to try to contain the infections in the coming weeks?
The solution, for Andrea Crisanti, professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua, is to increase the number of swabs, to try to find even asymptomatic people (who could infect without knowing it). For Matteo Bassetti, on the other hand, it is necessary to focus only on symptomatic and not very symptomatic, as advised by the CDC in Atlanta. Let's go step by step.
THE GOVERNMENT PLAN
Let's start with a proposed plan. To face the winter, the government should implement a plan of 250-300,000 tests per day. Twenty laboratories should be set up, one for each Region and 20 mobile units should be set up to monitor the epidemiological situation in the various outbreak points.
PROMOTER: ANDREA CRISANTI
The virologist Andrea Crisanti presented the action plan, worth 40 million euros, and now waiting to be validated (or rejected) by CTS, who has supported since the first emergency rounds, indeed even before the need to make carpet swabs.
The plan "is a proposal that he sent us on his own initiative, but I agree on the need to increase tampons, even over 300 thousand a day during the period of seasonal flu," the deputy minister said in an interview with La Stampa of Health Pierpaolo Sileri.
CHRISANTS: MORE PADS FOR SAFE SHOOTING
"The proposal I sent to the government for a national plan on tampons is still an informal draft and I would have preferred it to have remained so," Andrea Crisanti told Ansa. “The goal is to exponentially increase the tests, up to quadruple the current number of swabs in order to face the reopening of schools and the resumption of all work activities with more safety”, specified Crisanti.
THE PERPLESSITIES OF MATTEO BASSETTI
The plan was rejected, albeit indirectly, by Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa. "I am perplexed, if we increase tampons for asymptomatic we risk paralyzing Italy", Bassetti told Simone Spetia's 4Mattino on Radio 24 .
NO ASYMPTOMATIC TRACKING NEEDED
"If it is a question of having a potential offer in the autumn-winter period for symptomatic or slightly symptomatic it is important, but be careful to want to track all the asymptomatic ones because it is not recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta ( Cdc ), both because the 'asymptomatic may not transmit and that is because with 300,000 tampons a day we paralyze the country ”, Bassetti specified.
THE GUIDELINES OF THE ATLANTA CDC
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which updated the guidelines on tampons, expressed its opinion on the issue, as Bassetti reports.
The CDC, in its recommendations, writes: "If you have been in close contact with a person with a Covid-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but have no symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual ".
“If you have no symptoms of Covid-19 and haven't been in close contact with someone known to have a Covid-19 infection, you don't need a test,” the CDC added.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tamponi-a-tappetto-si-o-no-scontro-a-distanza-crisanti-bassetti/ on Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:10:04 +0000.