Andreoni: “Doctors and researchers avoid social controversy”

“We must always pay attention to the controversies born on social networks, especially if there are doctors or researchers involved. A discussion on institutional sites or through a serious debate on the media would be more useful”. Massimo Andreoni, head of infectious disease at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome and scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit), underlines this to Adnkronos Salute, commenting on the story of Roberto Burioni’s tweet, considered offensive to a disabled girl, for which the virologist then apologized.