Bassetti: 'Enough with the daily report, it only causes anxiety'

"This way of handling Covid must change. We must not continue to count as Covid patients those who are hospitalized for a broken arm and test positive for a swab.

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, head of infectious diseases at the San Martino hospital in Genoa, who spoke on the program L'Italia s'è awaken on Radio Cusano Campus. "What is the point of saying that we have 250 thousand people who have positive swabs? It is necessary to specify if they are symptomatic, asymptomatic, are hospitalized, stay at home - he adds - On the one hand, these are numbers that make us look bad with the rest of the world, because it seems that everything goes wrong and instead it is not, in reality other countries that have many more infections than us try to manage them in a different way. If we continue like this we will end up going into psychological and social lockdowns. , we will reach a point that we will have so many positives and contacts with positives that Italy will stop ". 

 For Bassetti, "the important thing would be to know how many people enter the hospital with Covid pneumonia and how many people instead enter the hospital for other diseases and have a positive swab". "We need to understand if the pressure on hospitals is from Covid pneumonia or if it is due to the huge number of swabs that are done - he underlines - We would need a very clear distinction. We should listen to doctors a little more. Today this virus for the majority of vaccinated people have a form of flu. Hospitals are full of unvaccinated people, who have to get vaccinated. In managing the pandemic, a necessary and urgent change of pace is needed ".

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the uselessness of a daily report of infections, because the number of infections in itself does not say anything. For my part, I also proposed to the Minister of Health to reflect on the current reporting system and my position is shared by my party Noi con Italia. I hope it can become a majority within the majority ".

said this to ANSA

, underlining how in the current situation "it is necessary to focus essentially on the data of hospitalizations and employment of intensive care units".