Covid, Bassetti: “Quarrel about virus origin is useless”

The one about the origin of the coronavirus in the laboratory “is a controversy that returns cyclically, but as a scientist I am of little interest. As a doctor I am amazed by what Fauci said, his statements seem more political than scientific to me. We know that this virus comes from the bat and then it passed to man, what was in between we do not know yet. It is difficult to establish and there are few certainties about the intermediate animal “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, comments on what was said by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious, who supports the need for an investigation on the origins of Sars -Cov-2, claiming he “is not convinced” that it developed naturally. Read also “For public health, the origin of the virus, if it comes from a laboratory or a wet market in Wuhan, China, is of very little interest – adds Bassetti – instead it is interesting that it never happens again, that surveillance systems intercept these phenomena and are able to be activated quickly. We know today that the first cases of atypical pneumonia date back to the summer of 2019, the world realized that something was wrong at the end of 2019, months and months of delay . This must not happen, no more delays in communication “.