Covid Italia, Bassetti: “Son criticizes whoever made the deck on the field”

“I am sorry that in this country we go to criticize the doctors in the field, the virologists, the infectious diseases, the hygienists, who have made a lot of themselves” in the management of Covid in Italy, “and are never able to look to the mistakes made by politics, by the commissioner and by the CTS. In the books they criticize the doctors who have done an exceptional job, even the virologists who went on TV. There is an ideological way to manage the pandemic, the others are always wrong ” . So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, comments on a passage from the book written by the extraordinary commissioner for the coronavirus emergency, Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, with Beppe Severgnini, in which the general talking about the disputes of doctors on TV pointed out that “certain scenes did not help people understand” and that “the sudden fame has brought out human and natural contrasts in the scientific world”. “I don’t know who General Figliuolo is referring to, I certainly have great esteem for him, but if he starts to give judgments on good and less good doctors I find it exaggerated and he could have avoided it – says Bassetti – I hope Severgnini and not Figliuolo wrote it . Because discussing, reasoning and having different ideas in the scientific field leads to improvement. A continuous public confrontation has led to the enrichment of all of us “. “Maybe” Figliuolo “should see what has been done at the government level, because if the scientists had been listened to, certain errors would not have been committed”. In detail, in a passage from the book ‘An Italian – What life has taught to face the greatest challenge ‘, edited by Rizzoli, Figliuolo states: “I thought that certain scenes we could, and should, spare ourselves. They didn’t help people understand.” “I have a suspicion: virologists, many of whom are very good, in the scientific field they have been a bit neglected. Not because virology is a minor discipline compared to cardiology, surgery or oncology. But, let’s face it, the general public a virologist didn’t even know who he was … ” , go on. “Sudden fame has brought human and natural contrasts to the fore in the scientific world,” he concludes.