For the head of intensive care of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan Alberto Zangrillo being infected does not mean being sick. But the virologist from the University of Padua Andrea Crisanti, who assisted the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia in the management of the coronavirus emergency, does not agree with this statement. “In Padua we have dozens and dozens of patients in the ward and in intensive care”, he replied.
For the professor Zangrillo the numbers of the last few days are the confirmation of what he himself had declared on 28 April, namely that we should “learn to live with the virus. Being infected does not mean being sick”, he told In Onda on La7 yesterday.
“The government is right to adopt all the rules with the regions to try to identify the infected early. However, we must not confuse the infected with the sick. The infected has serological evidence for which he came into contact with a virus and in 99 % of cases do not show clinical symptoms. There are appointments that could create discomfort and concern, such as the reopening of schools, but we must not create confusion: being infected does not mean being sick, it has no meaning from a clinical-health point of view ” added Zangrillo.
“According to Istat data, in the middle of the epidemic there were 50-60% of asymptomatic patients. Sick people no longer enter resuscitation? Perhaps it refers to your hospital, because this is not true and I do not think you can make a statement of the on a national scale. I don’t understand on what basis he makes these statements, which are extremely dangerous “, said Crisanti, guest tonight at ‘In Onda’.
Before him, the president of the Gimbe Foundation had argued with Zangrillo Nino Cartabellotta, who on Twitter had attacked the professor as follows: “Being infected does not mean being sick, it has no meaning from a clinical-health point of view. ‘This statement from a public health perspective is a great blasphemy dear Zangrillo”. In the tweet, the head of resuscitation of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan and vice-rector of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele university in Milan had replied as follows: “Study”.
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