AGI – “The communication was wrong. Terrorizing people can help keep them indoors, but at the hospital level, managing a panicked population only generates chaos“. In an interview with” Libero “Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, argues that” if today health facilities are at risk of collapse it is also because they are besieged by thousands of asymptomatic or slightly symptomatic people who they could easily be treated at home and instead they storm the emergency rooms, clog hospital switchboards, waste doctors’ time. And everything happens because they were frightened by the institutions, which should have reassured them “.
“Covid has been magnified: it is panic and fear of being intubated that blows up the health system, not the sick. If I receive one hundred phone calls a day from those who are not sick, how do I treat the real sick? “. For Bassetti,” it was said that the Corona is doing enormous damage but that the majority of positives are asymptomatic or not very symptomatic and that the virus has a lethality of less than 1% and is especially bad for elderly patients with already compromised health “.
Why, then, are serious, sometimes fatal cases, even among the youngest patients? “Because it is a bad infection – admits the infectious specialist – and there are many factors: genetics, health conditions, the state of the immune defenses at the time of the infection, the introjected viral load. before the onset of Covid, pneumonia contracted outside the hospital was the fifth leading cause of death in the world, and also killed fifty-year-olds and children “.
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