Covid, Zangrillo: “Those who scare the media should be sanctioned”

“The media fell in love with the Covid trend”. But in Italy “there is an enormous responsibility on the part of those who communicate: for any character looking for an author, it is enough to talk about one of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet and he finds himself a scientist”. “Rest assured, though: out of 100 people who speak daily in the media, perhaps one has seen the disease in the eye.” It is the reflection of Alberto Zangrillo, director of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department of the Irccs San Raffaele hospital in Milan, who emphasizes one aspect: “Scaring people with alarming tones should be sanctioned”, he argues. The specialist, in an interview with Adnkronos Salute, expresses concern for the effects of months lived under the pandemic threat and for the amplification that is often given to the more gray shades: today, he observes, “an important percentage of people living in the terror, waiting for the end of the world. We urgently need to bring everyone back to a level of rational awareness “, he reiterates. For Zangrillo, this creates a” planetary tragicomic situation with devastating effects on the social, cultural, existential, economic and health plan “. One of the concepts that the Vice Rector of the Vita-Salute University has often opposed to this vision is that we must “live with the virus”, as he recently reiterated when commenting on Twitter on the announcements of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Against Covid, he concludes today, “timely and correct treatment is worth more than 1,000 swabs”. Vaccine chapter: “You must vaccinate against Covid not because it is mandatory, but because otherwise you run the risk of meeting me”, he says with a joke. The message is clear: the shield injection is important to protect yourself and avoid the most serious consequences of the disease that could lead people to the hospital. “This is what you must understand” and “that must push people – concludes the Vice Rector of the hospital. ‘Vita-Salute university – more than an obligation or the green pass “, a hot topic that is being discussed in these days in view of the possibility of binding various activities to certification and perhaps even being able to push immunizations forward. theme with these words and, as regards the Covid situation, reiterates: “Timely and correct treatment is worth more than 1,000 swabs”.