"Writing about a pandemic with Andrea Crisanti is like dribbling with Lionel Messi. Every touch of the ball you have to understand how he takes it." This is how Michele Mezza, a journalist who has been dealing with digital systems for some time, presents the new book written together with the primary microbiologist from Padua. "Hunt for the virus", Donzelli publisher, which will be in bookstores on June 15, is a real journey into the terrible experience of Covid-19 which is also measured against future prospects to analyze the living conditions we will have after the wave vaccines. In short, a scientist and a reporter who reread what has been done so far on the pandemic front and identify the points on which it is no longer possible to be surprised by the unpredictability of the infection. Vaccines plus vigilance is the formula proposed by Crisanti.A strong and vigorous action that completes the vaccination of the population, integrated however by a permanent control system that aims to identify the micro-outbreaks that could reproduce, as we have seen also happen in the most advanced countries on immunization, such as England and the USA.
The control, explains Crisanti in detail, referring to his winning experience in Vo, the municipality of Veneto where the contagion was limited from the first days of the pandemic, must have the aim of finding the asymptomatic people who have caused so many negative effects in recent months. . To do this, it is necessary to activate an articulated strategy based on mass testing, around the individuals found positive and an effective and functional tracing system, accompanied by a sample sequencing organization to locate any variants. And it is precisely on the tracking that Crisanti and Mezza advance an operational proposal that could revive the lifeless Immuni: the app that at the moment appears out of the game. With a downsizing of the volumes of the infected, the authors explain,it would be possible to regain control of the circulation of the virus by activating an app that combines territorial georeferencing with a bluetooth device to ensure user privacy. There is no lack of controversial considerations on the tolerance of Google and Apple on the part of the Italian system which, while holding back the territorial activity of Immuni, did not limit the scanning capacity of our movements by the two owners of the mobile phone operating systems. The book also reveals the circumstance of a Crisanti plan that was requested by the previous government, in August 2020, and then remained in the drawer. Continuing the itinerary that the two authors had started with a previous volume: 'Il Contagio dell'goritmo', also by Donzelli,the new book offers a complete vision of Crisanti's thought that still triggers so much controversy for his determination to privilege the goal of security over an "early" liberalization of activities. Written with a fast pace, the text offers us an original and complex point of view of what it defines, quoting the director of the scientific journal Lancet, Richard Horton, a syndemia and not a pandemic, that is, a phenomenon induced and multiplied by an unequal social environment and compromise from an ecological point of view. "A condition that leads us to look at the future with less certainty. (ANSA).liberalization of activities. Written with a fast pace, the text offers us an original and complex point of view of what it defines, quoting the director of the scientific journal Lancet, Richard Horton, a syndemia and not a pandemic, that is, a phenomenon induced and multiplied by an unequal social environment and compromise from an ecological point of view. "A condition that leads us to look at the future with less certainty. (ANSA).liberalization of activities. Written with a fast pace, the text offers us an original and complex point of view of what it defines, quoting the director of the scientific journal Lancet, Richard Horton, a syndemia and not a pandemic, that is, a phenomenon induced and multiplied by an unequal social environment and compromise from an ecological point of view. "A condition that leads us to look at the future with less certainty. (ANSA).Condition that leads us to look at the future with less certainty. (HANDLE).Condition that leads us to look at the future with less certainty. (HANDLE).
