Covid, Bassetti: “We have now become Tamponificio Italia”

For Matteo Bassetti “we have now become the land of tampons or even better ‘Tamponificio Italia'”. Thus, in a post on Facebook, the director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Genoa. “The swabs – writes the infectious disease specialist – are not requested by a doctor and therefore interpreted, but have become like ‘Zigulì or’ condoms’. You can take them whenever you want, at the ‘counter’, you can order them on the web and make them yourself even alone. I’m not sure with what method “. Bassetti continues: “Or you queue for hours to be able to go to New Year’s Eve safely (so to speak) or finish the quarantine imposed by the son who had a positive in the classroom. What’s the point of all this? false negatives (up to 40% of cases), false positives and in any case it offers a snapshot of the moment in which it was done. Let’s go back to swab the symptomatics and finish with this system that risks paralyzing our country “, emphasizes again. In another post published this morning, Bassetti spoke of the Omicron variant denouncing the “alarm and terror” campaign on the mutation: “The South African, British, American, Danish, Scottish colleagues who have seen Omicron up close, say that in vaccinated is little more than a cold. And with us? The campaign of alarm and terror continues and the same rules with which Covid were fought in 2020 are maintained. In 5 days it will be 2022 “, underlined the expert.” The doctors in the world they face Omicron and realize that it is more contagious, but much less aggressive than the Covid that we have unfortunately known to date. Even the figures in this latest scientific article show that Omicron causes less damage to the lungs than Delta “, he wrote posting one Belgian preprint study on the minor pathogenicity of the lung variant.