Covid, Bassetti: “Stop politicizing, science must not take the votes”

“Enough politics in the management of Covid”. Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious diseases clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, says so loudly. “Even having put their hats on some of us – he tells Adnkronos Salute – by some political parties is a clamorous mistake, because we are free people. The politicians who wanted to put their hats on some doctors must be aware, both on the one hand and on the other – the expert warns – that science is an undemocratic subject. We must not take votes from anyone, we must tell people what is right to do. science, then if a party likes it, it doesn’t matter to me. Medicine and science must be free “. Then he clarifies: “I have never married anyone, I am me and I am the same. Today Bassetti likes the left, before he liked the right – observes the infectious disease specialist – But my positions are always those of consistency and on the side of science , then if today one party likes me and another doesn’t like me, frankly I don’t care. I want to please my patients, I want to please the scientific world and scientific rigor “.