Covid home therapies, 50 doctors sue Bassetti: “He defamed us”

Fifty doctors from the Covid Early Home Therapy Committee, led by Erich Grimaldi, sued the Genoese infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti “for having defamed them during the ‘Zona Bianca’ broadcast broadcast on Rete4 on January 19, 2022”. According to the Committee, “Professor Bassetti defined the aforementioned doctors as ‘four boastful gurus, sorcerers and magicians, who treated people with licorice and infusions on cold water thighs'”. Bassetti, again according to the Committee, “recklessly stated, during the transmission, that ‘indeed they did not cure her as a lot of people died’, and argued that behind the home therapies there was only big business without any will to cure patients, with therapies even compared to those of sorcerers and braggart “. The complaint was presented to the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office and also concerns the deputy Andrea Romano. “Professor Bassetti and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza should only treasure the experiences of volunteer doctors (general practitioners, specialists, hospitals and former teachers) who should be thanked, without delay, given that, in these 2 years, without any profit, they have stolen thousands of Covid patients from a certain hospitalization “, explains Grimaldi. “I demand respect – he continues – for those who have been close to the citizens, filling a void in local health, which is why we will be a civil party in order to obtain compensation for all damages resulting from the illegal conduct carried out by Bassetti, who forgets to having been, with Agenas, among the authors of the first home care guidelines which provided for the vigilant waiting with paracetamol in the first days of symptoms, a therapeutic indication confirmed by a purely political ruling of the Council of State “, concludes Grimaldi, guaranteeing that” any sums paid as compensation will be donated to charity “.