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"The virus no longer clinically exists in Italy": Berlusconi's doctor cropped by the WHO

2020-06-03T13:00:19.545Z


Dr. Alberto Zangrillo had assured that the Italians had to "stop scaring". Do not give the feeling that everything


Silvio Berlusconi's doctor was severely cropped by the World Health Organization after explaining that "the virus no longer exists clinically in Italy". There is nothing to confirm that the new coronavirus has become less pathogenic, reacted Monday evening WHO after the words of Dr. Alberto Zangrillo, director of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. He is also known to be the one who tracks the health of the former head of the Italian government.

"We have to be exceptionally careful not to give the impression that suddenly the virus, by its own free will, has decided to become less pathogenic. This is not at all the case, "said Michael Ryan, head of the WHO emergency response program, at a virtual press conference.

The new coronavirus "remains a killer virus" and "thousands of people continue to die every day", he stressed, questioned on the statements of this Italian doctor and emergency physician that the new coronavirus had disappeared from Italy.

"It is time to stop terrorizing this country," Dr Alberto Zangrillo said on RAI television on Sunday. "The samples taken over the past ten days have shown an absolutely infinitesimal viral load in quantitative terms compared to those taken a month or two months ago," he said.

"The virus could be weaker because we are improving"

For WHO, these findings could be explained by less exposure to the virus. "We don't know if this is the case for Covid-19, but it may not be the virus itself that becomes less virulent, but that we, as a community, manage to reduce the number , intensity and frequency of exposure to the virus, "said Michael Ryan.

"On the surface, the virus seems weaker, but it could be weaker because we are improving [in its knowledge and management], not because it is weakening. I hope the virus weakens, we all hope so, but at this stage we cannot bet on it, "he added.

The new coronavirus killed nearly 33,500 in three months in Italy, the epicenter of the disease in Europe after its appearance in China in late 2019. The North, in particular Lombardy (of which Milan is the capital), has concentrated most of the cases.

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