On 18 September he entered the hospital in Pescara with a diagnosis of Covid. High fever, exhaustion and pneumonia. In the short space of a few hours, therefore, he found himself attached to the respirator. In very serious condition. Maurizio Acerbo, 54, national secretary of the Communist Refoundation, the last politician who fell under the train of the virus. He has been breathing autonomously since 23 September, but his conditions are not yet good. Rather. A few hours ago, on his Facebook profile, where he updates his party mates on his state of health, he posted a photo in which he is seen lying on a biocontainment stretcher while the doctors take him for a CT scan. To transport me out of the #covid department they used this containment stretcher – explained the secretary, who is still obviously contagious -. We hope well. Dr. Parruti told me that I have to be patient because the virus could return to attack the lungs. I do experimental therapy with Tocilizumab. Two punctures on the thighs. The effect should last for fourteen days. An ordeal.
–
I was fine
Acerbo had no previous pathologies. He confessed it himself yesterday, in a statement collected by theAnsa: Yet I have been in hospital for eleven days – he said -. Not something you mess with. There are risks, such as thrombosis, which are very serious. I get sick from the flu every year, but I’ve never had a CT scan, an angiotac, or eight blood gases which are painful. How do you say it’s just a little bit stronger influence? irresponsible. Acerbo, leader of the party that belonged to Fausto Bertinotti, spoke about the illness that struck him with words not too far removed from those used by Silvio Berlusconi a few days ago: I’ve never been this bad in my life, said the leader of Rifondazione. But you know, on this the virus appeared absolutely democratic.
–
The diary
Already a deputy of the XV legislature and therefore a candidate for mayor of Pescara, Acerbo on social media is keeping a sort of diary of his hospital stay. Between anxieties, pains, worries. Good morning from bed n. 4, Covid department, Pescara hospital – he wrote a few days ago -. Even today my only human contacts are them, the health workers (in addition to other patients and doctors), young people in very kind, caring, always on the move, smiling young people. Twenty-year-olds who work with passion and sensitivity. They call them “angels”, “heroes” but, beyond the rhetoric of power – he added, not holding back a political reflection – they too are ultra-precarious, administered through the interim agency Manpower. Professional deformation, the political one, on which, moreover, Acerbo has shown that he is joking about: This morning three resignations from the Covid department in Pescara – he wrote a few hours later -. An ambulance takes them home one at a time. They will have to remain in quarantine until they become negativized. A particular mention to my neighbor who for a week put up with my speeches.
–
Liability
In any case, the road still seems long. A few days ago Acerbo wrote that things were better. Then again the collapse, the high fever. It takes a sense of responsibility – he says -. better a precautionary error than an extra death. We must rely on the indications of science. We are never completely safe, but we must do everything possible to try to avoid contagions.
–
–
September 28, 2020 (change September 28, 2020 | 19:32)
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED
– .
