What Hope says and does not say on the pandemic level
What the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, said in the Senate about the pandemic, what emerges from the investigations of the magistrates and how did Zambon (ex WHO) judge Speranza's words
The pandemic plan has not been updated for about 180 months, with the alternation of “7 governments, with different parliamentary majorities”. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, said this in a hearing in the Senate on 28 April, adding that there is now a plan and that when it comes to political responsibility for failure to update, he is not the one to defend himself.
Meanwhile, the judiciary is working to ascertain responsibility for what happened in the first months of the pandemic. And that the confusion stemmed from the failure to update the pandemic plan is still something that even in recent months we have tried to hide.
Let's go step by step.
THE NEW PANDEMIC PLAN
Italy has a new flu pandemic plan. It was drawn up during the mandate of Roberto Speranza, while Italy is grappling with the fight against Covid-19, and approved on January 25, 2021 on the occasion of the State-Regions Conference.
"I can say with my head held high that the updated influenza pandemic plan is there and has been unanimously approved in the State-Regions Conference," said Speranza.
“What has not been done in many years – added Speranza – was instead achieved in a few months, precisely during my mandate. And the one approved is an important document, also and above all for its highly operational approach and for the clear definition of the tasks, roles and responsibilities that are reported in it ”.
THE NO UPDATE
The minister himself recalled that the pandemic plan has not been updated in the course of seven previous governments and "all the groups in this House have supported some of these governments: it is too easy today to pretend not to see".
THE POLITICAL CLASH
"And with bitterness – continues Speranza – that I see political conflict prevailing, often also feeding a language of hatred that can never be accepted".
"The attempt to exploit the anguish of Italians for short-sighted partisan interests is affirmed: it is wrong, because it produces enormous damage, not to me or to the government, but to the country that must remain united in a delicate passage".
THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JUDICIARY
Apart from politics, however, the Bergamo prosecutor's office is working on the failure to update the pandemic plan, investigating the case of Alzano Lombardo. And on this, Speranza claims to have "faith in the judiciary".
“I'm not the one who has to defend myself”.
THE WHO DOCUMENT CENSORED BY WHO
The failure to update the pandemic plan and therefore the consequences of this on the confused and disorganized response of Italy to the pandemic is mentioned in the report drawn up by 10 WHO researchers in Venice, led by Francesco Zambon, “An unprecedented challenge. Italy's first response to Covid ".
THE CENSORSHIP
The report was published on the WHO website and withdrawn in just 24 hours. Withdrawal, explains Speranza, decided by the WHO: “It is exclusively an internal decision of the World Health Organization. It was withdrawn for factual inaccuracies. Among the errors, the one relating to the timeline of the epidemic in China. WHO Europe itself has stated that at no time has the Italian government asked WHO to remove the document ”.
THE WAR AND BRUSAFERRO CHATS
The latter words, however, which are denied by the chats between Ranieri Guerra, deputy director of the World Health Organization, and Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
“In the end I went to Tedros and had the document collected”, wrote Guerra in Brusaferro on 14 May. And again: “I think it is a disgusting thing that was not missed. I hope to drop a couple of incorrigible heads. Thank you".
"Thank you very much. I am inexperienced but it seems to me that it is really a critical situation ”, replied Silvio Brusaferro.
THE ROLE OF GOFFREDO ZACCARDI
Not only. In the chats between the deputy director of the WHO and Brusaferro , Goffredo Zaccardi, head of the cabinet of the Ministry of Health, is also brought up.
“I see Zaccardi at 7 pm. Do you want me to start talking to him about the hypothesis of revision of the report of the donkeys of Venice? Then we agree on how? ”.
"Sure, okay," replies the ISS president.
Two hours later: “CDG says to see if we can make him fall into thin air. If nobody talks about it by Monday, he wants to kill him. Otherwise we take it back together. Sic. ".
THE REPLICA OF ZAMBON
Also in the light of this, Speranza's words seem "surprising and disconcerting" to Francesco Zambon, who replies to the minister in a statement to La Verità .
“Surprising because the evidence in the Bergamo investigation is not speculation. Disconcerting because the elements that have emerged, including chats and e-mails only confirm the serious doubts about the lack of independence of the WHO ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/cosa-dice-e-non-dice-speranza-sul-piano-pandemico/ on Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:01:44 +0000.