Bassetti: “Enough tampons or Italy goes into lockdown”

“The system of tampons made like this with quarantines for asymptomatic patients and everything that derives from it is leading to what I had predicted 15 days ago: the Italian championship stopped, schools closed, supermarkets with out of stock. We are moving towards the lockdown, a unwanted lockdown that will stop Italy “. The alarm was raised by Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa. “It is true, as Rasi says, that rapid tests are useless, 50% of the time they give a false negative, think about how many cases we could have in Italy today. This – underlines the infectious disease specialist – is the true data: if the half are not able to detect the virus and we already have 250 thousand cases which means that in reality there are at least as many and therefore we are in a phase in which we probably have 6-7 million positive people “. But “the real problem is: are we interested in knowing how many asymptomatic positives are in Italy? In my opinion, no, in the opinion of politics, yes because they have created a perverse system that is now twisting in on itself”. “If those who test positive are asymptomatic we close them at home for 10 days, who goes around? The system is so badly made – the doctor attacks – that it happens that people who have the symptoms do not swab and those who do not do. they have them. We must simplify – urges Bassetti – let’s look at what other countries have done. I have been saying this for some time “.