Covid and infections, Ilaria Capua ‘turns on’ Twitter: what she said

The scientist wrote yesterday that “if the positivity is 12%, every hundred people you see around 12 are infected. A tweet from Ilaria Capua on covid infections in Italy and the positivity rate turns on Twitter. By replying to a message, the scientist – director of the One Health Center of Excellence at the University of Florida – wrote yesterday that “if the positivity is 12%, every 100 people you see around 12 are infected, and therefore represent a possible source of contagion”. The tweet ended up in the crosshairs of hundreds of users, who responded and commented on the message making #Capua jump to the top of the trends. Virologist Roberto Burioni also expressed himself with a tweet on the contagion theme: “When you read in the newspapers that the rate positivity is 12% means that 12% of the swabs tested are positive, not that 12% of the population currently has COVID-19 “.