Berlusconi: “Coronavirus hellish disease, I’m fighting”

Silvio in connection from the hospital speaks at a rally: “I’m struggling to get back on track”. The latest bulletin described the evolution of the clinical picture as “reassuring”

“I’m struggling to get out of this infernal disease, it’s very bad. Here at San Raffaele they have done thousands of exams and I was among the top 5 by force of the virus. I’m doing my best and I really hope to make it and to be able to get back on track “. To say it is Silvio Berlusconi, connected by telephone with a meeting in Fenis, in the Aosta Valley. The former Milan number one, now president of Monza, is struggling with pneumonia that arose as a result of the infection from Covid-19.

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The conditions

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In the last few hours, Berlusconi has been cheered up by his personal doctor, Alberto Zangrillo. “We can confirm the observation of a clinical picture in constant favorable evolution. All the clinical and haematochemical parameters monitored are reassuring”, read in the afternoon the bulletin signed by Zangrillo, head of intensive care at San Raffaele, confirming the positive effect detected. in the last 72 hours of therapy with Remdesivir, an antiviral used to treat Ebola. The nearly 84 years and the previous pathologies require the utmost caution, the “delicate” phase may not yet be overcome. No predictions are yet made on when he will be able to leave the hospital.

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The charge

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Five days have passed and it could take another five days to verify the decrease in lung inflammation and viral load, which was “high” in the first swab last Wednesday and is falling. It was a “record-breaking” viral charge, Berlusconi told Forza Italia senators.

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