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Posted on: 30/06/2020 12:16
“In Italy we have seen a tsunami and we have faced it. Today the numbers tell us that, at least for this epidemic phase, we are at the end of the line because yesterday’s data, sick and dead, seems to me to be encouraging. To say that the worst it has yet to arrive I don’t agree with it, and the WHO alarm also refers to the situation on a global level “. He says this to Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious diseases clinic of the Policlinico San Martino in Genoa, commenting on the words of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, according to which “the worst is yet to come”.
“It is clear that there are countries where the numbers will grow, Brazil and the USA, and where the efforts we have made in Italy with the lockdown, the spacing measures, the strengthening of local medicine and the implementation of intensive care places, “adds the infectious disease specialist.
“Predicting what will happen in October is difficult even if I don’t think there will be another tsunami. We will have cases, many or few, but we will be able to deal with them because now the system is prepared, we have our laboratories that work with local medicine. I am convinced that everything will work “, explains the virologist again. According to Bassetti,” living the next three months with the sword of Damocles on the head of a second wave is not a good thing for the economy, for the psychological aspect and for the sanitary system. Today we have to say loud and clear that we have done a great job. We try to see the glass half full and not always half empty “, he continues.
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