Covid, doctors: “3 out of 10 patients with symptoms refuse swab”

“Now every day, in the offices of family doctors, we discuss with patients who have symptoms attributable to Covid, who ask for treatment, but refuse to swab in pharmacies, at us or in public facilities so as not to have to be forced to isolation in case of positivity. I would say that this attitude concerns 30% of people with suspected symptoms “. Outlining the phenomenon for Adnkronos Health is Silvestro Scotti, national secretary of the Federation of General Practitioners (Fimmg), according to whom for the ‘summer wave’ of Sars-CoV-2 infections a lot of responsibility has the swabs. from you who “trivialized testing”. “People who swab at home – Spiga Scotti – if they do not have an employee job or have poor protection, in the presence of few symptoms that can be controlled with drugs, in many cases do not report the disease so as not to have to isolate themselves. And this obviously does ‘run’ the virus, in particular with the contagiousness of the Omicron variants “.