Covid, Bassetti: “Those who deny deaths are like terrapiattisti”

“Although I was one of those who always said that the numbers of” deaths from Covid 19 in Italy, “especially in the first period, had to be reviewed and analyzed, I am ashamed to live in a country where there is someone who looks at that report saying that out of 130 thousand dead only 3 thousand have died from Covid. Silence these flat-earthers and deniers. They can no longer stand their speeches. They generate hatred, confuse people, mystify reality and lead nowhere “. Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, writes on Instagram, commenting on some media that have returned to advance doubts about the real count of deaths related to Covid. And at Adnkronos Health, after the data from the Iss report, he explains that the slight increase in the Rt index and incidence, which are rising week by week, “need not worry”: they are “data to be watched over, but let’s look the hospitals where the Covid wards are almost empty “. “With 85% of the population over 12 vaccinated with at least one dose, and adding those who are naturally immune because they made the antibodies” having contracted the infection, “we are in great safety and little is certain. that the approval of the European Medicines Agency Ema for the vaccine in children of 5-11 years will arrive very soon, in the next 2-3 months we will be in absolute safety “. “The Rt index must certainly be looked at, but there have been other moments in which it has grown, as is also happening with the incidence, in any case in the face of a hospital situation under control – analyzes Bassetti – We have to change the way we look at this. infection. In a first phase like last year we could talk about incidence because there was no protective effect of vaccines, and therefore having so many cases also meant having many seriously ill, intensive care hospitalizations and deaths. Today that’s all. different – remarks the infectious disease specialist – We must not look at the RT and the incidence: certainly we need to be vigilant, but hospital admissions must be kept under observation, where it seems to me that the situation is absolutely manageable without the need to open new departments or to put resources on Covid by moving them from other pathologies “. Bassetti also highlights the problems that could arise in the near future. “The cold months await us where we will have an increase in general respiratory diseases, flu and Covid will be able to pull up our heads again, but I don’t think – he concludes – that we will get to see the numbers of the past”.