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The Zambon War, the Viral Services and the Arcurite on masks and appointments

Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start, not only on Zambon and Guerra

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Here are the new flaws that Report will reveal on WHO and the old pandemic plan

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Have I received threats? Ranieri Guerra telephoned me and told me that he was at the door of the general manager and that if I had not changed the text as requested, he would have said that I was behind the episode of Report that was accusing WHO. But I knew absolutely nothing about the episode of Report that evening. And only, then looking at it, I understood why: heavy accusations were made about the links between China, Ethiopia and other things and there was also a part dedicated to the pandemic plan. In Geneva (WHO headquarters, ed. ) There was a great apprehension about the investigation and therefore Tedros certainly knew it too, which obviously would have put me in an extremely difficult position, I could be fired at any time ". WHO Europe researcher Francesco Zambon reveals the contents of the phone call received by WHO deputy director general Ranieri Guerra during the episode of Report that will be broadcast this evening.

Zambon then tells Report journalist Giulio Valesini that he would not change the content of the report in which he defined the Italian management of the first wave of the pandemic as "improvised, chaotic and creative". And he adds: “Frankly, I am very proud of the contents of the report. I wanted it to be read by the people and not just by ministers and political decision makers, I wanted it to be read by people so that they could also be prepared from an emotional point of view ”. So in theory a relationship that was supposed to literally save lives? “Yes, this was our hope”.

“After the publication” of the controversial report on the Italian pandemic plan, “a fire broke out in various institutions in Rome. I know for a fact that there was great turmoil. This I must say that it hurt me a lot ”. In this regard, Report tonight will show an e-mail from WHO Europe director Hans Kluge in which Kluge himself shows concern for the reaction of the Italian Health Minister, so much so that he writes: "It is the key question, my relationship with the minister who was very annoyed ”.

And he adds: "I will write to the minister that we will set up a group of experts from the Ministry / Higher Institute of Health / WHO to review the document". A proposal that Zambon found “strange. And in fact then later when I was asked for the text to obviously make some changes – says Zambon – I together with all the authors were all in agreement in saying that the WHO can do absolutely what it wants but without our name ".

“Several times Ranieri Guerra, both by email and by telephone, asked me to change the date of the Italian pandemic plan” accuses WHO Europe researcher Francesco Zambon during the Report transmission. “He wanted me to write in the report that the plan, since 2006, had been updated, using the very words updated and reconfirmed. In consultation with all the authors of the report, we absolutely decided that we could write reconfirmed because in fact it hadn't changed even one iota since 2006, but we certainly couldn't write updated. This would have been to declare the false and I did not feel it ”.

WHO Europe researcher Francesco Zambon this evening tells Report of his unsuccessful attempt to warn WHO Director General Tedros about the risks associated with the decision to withdraw the report on the Italian pandemic plan for the reputation of the World Health Organization .

“'A WHO publication (approved at all levels, including the Chief Scientist) has been withdrawn – wrote Zambon on May 28 to Tedros – effectively damaging WHO's credibility. There is a risk of catastrophic damage in terms of independence and transparency if a 'censored' version of the publication is changed. ' I was talking about catastrophic reputational damage. Unfortunately, I don't think I went too far. I never received an answer to that email ”, Zambon tells Giulio Valesini.

Returning to the fact that Zambon's report highlighted how the Italian pandemic plan had not been updated in fact since 2006, the question is: would an updated pandemic plan have been useful for Italy to better deal with Covid? “I think so – Zambon replies bluntly – it is not possible that a plan of 14 years ago could be current. The influenza pandemic plan is the basis for preparing for pandemics that are caused by different viral agents. Moreover, there have been several that were caused by Coronavirus: Sars in 2003, then MERS in 2014-2015 that was also a wake-up call, and then this Coronavirus arrived in 2019 ".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-guerra-di-zambon-i-servizi-virali-arcurite-nomine-mascherine/ on Tue, 22 Dec 2020 08:30:43 +0000.