Coronavirus, Sileri: “Normality only when we have a vaccine”

Normality will only return when we have a vaccine: the deputy minister for health said this morning, Pierpaolo Sileri, participating in the radio broadcast ‘Circo Massimo’ on Radio Capital. “Until then – said Sileri – we will have accurate contacts and a sense of responsibility, which will guide the resumption and reopening of activities. In the coming weeks, preventive medicine in the area will have to be strengthened. There are many serological tests available, they must be standardized on a national scale. And the indications on who to take the tests must be standardized, we cannot think of doing them for all Italians “.

Just this morning an Italian company announced that it has completed at the Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia the studies needed to launch a new serological test high processing volume to detect the presence of antibodies in patients infected with coronavirus, and “by the end of apirle” will ask for the CE mark and the authorization for emergency use (Eua) of the Food and Drug Administration (Fda).

“The tsunami that hit Northern Italy – Sileri said – is slowly withdrawing. And the blockade has prevented it from spreading to the south. The pressure on the national health system has fallen. In a new situation, in which we are confronted with a invisible enemy, it will be necessary to review everything that has happened to discover responsibility and to build a model that can work in the future “.

Unfortunately, he continues, “the financing of the national health system has not gone hand in hand with the needs of the population, and I am sure that in the next thirty years we will have at least two other pandemics”.