Covid Italia, Bassetti: “Enough state of emergency, return to normality”

“If the” epidemiological “situation continues to be this, we have had a winter without the contours of a real emergency, at least at the hospital level, and the time has come to get out of this phase. We have had 26 continuous months in a state of emergency. , I believe that we must return to normal. Today the virus is endemic and we must learn more and more to live with it, this also means not continuing to live in a state of emergency “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the San Martino hospital in Genoa. “To do normal things we must not say that an emergency is needed, General Figliuolo can remain to manage the organizational machine without there being a state of emergency. There are cases, hospitalizations, but all in a very different way compared to a year ago “, remarks Bassetti. Speaking of the situation of schools, Bassetti speaks of a “management of Covid that borders on madness. We are witnessing incomprehensible health rules, even for those who wrote them. Rules that do not serve to prevent infections, but only to damage students and their families. We must go back to listening to pediatricians and doctors: those who are sick stay at home for at least 3 days from the disappearance of symptoms. Enough asymptomatic swabs, made more to mitigate unjustified anxieties of parents than to limit the spread of the virus school in Dad, if not absolutely necessary. Forced quarantines and Dad are unable to stop this virus that does not infect only during school hours. “