Covid, Galli blurts out on TV: “I shouldn’t have come …”

“I don’t come on TV for glory or for money, I reject 9 out of 10 requests I receive. If I had known, I would not have come”. Professor Massimo Galli does not hide a pinch of irritation at Controcurrent, on Rete4, when they review statements by assorted experts representing a sort of ‘National of doctors’: from Bassetti to Zangrillo, from Capua to Crisanti, passing through Galli, on the screen bounce the words of virologists and infectious diseases. “I state that from zero to 100 I like this thing -2 … Had I understood that there was this, I would not have come. General communication has contributed a lot to the confusion, putting scientific positions that have different contents on the same level. showed colleagues who said all sorts of things: I believe I remained consistent with the data “, says the head of the infectious diseases department of the Sacco hospital in Milan. “In my opinion, his attitude is wrong. Let’s try to explain that an image of this ‘derby’ has been created” between science and communication. “We do not aim to ghettoize the scientists, after a year and a half in which you participated in our programs I think you know it better than anyone else”, replies the host Veronica Gentili. “Tomorrow is the anniversary of an unfortunate event. . On July 27 last year in the Senate there was a meeting with some illustrious politicians and various figures of health and science: things were said about the third wave and the clinical death of the disease. There have been 92 thousand deaths from September to today , let’s do away with the comparisons between scientists. There are those who have said things that have come true and there are those who have said more “, says Galli.