Lucio Bomben director of the Asfo Prevention Department, he is not only in tune with the councilor for health Riccardo Riccardi on the need not to swab the asymptomatic who have had contact with a positive, but goes further and points to one line also for asymptomatic positives. «An asymptomatic positive – he explains – has a very low viral load to the point that isolation is not required. I can say more. Personally I think that with all the necessary precautions, I mean the Ffp2 mask always worn correctly, the distance required by the regulations (at least two meters) and frequent hand washing, it could well go to work in a closed environment where they are not crammed like sardines. There would be no transmission of infections ». An easy line, therefore, even if now the legislation on this point is clear: those who are positive must remain in isolation.
But the head of the Department also pushes on another front. «It makes no sense to swab everyone because in this way the entire system clogs up and it becomes impossible to correctly track the real risks, as in the case of large clusters to keep under control. It is unthinkable to have to swab all of them because you can’t keep up with it and you can’t dispose of the previous one. For several days now in the Department the number of people to be buffered is always the same, it hasn’t dropped. This is because new names are added every day. It is then – he blurts out – useless to be hypocrites: if the Higher Institute of Health has cleared the do-it-yourself tampons at home, it means that it has already decided to circulate the virus “.
«Tracking makes little sense for the asymptomatic»
Lucio Bomben goes on. «There are two phases that numerically weigh on the Prevention Department and on which the Region should give indications to avoid blockages and blockages of the prevention operations. The first is linked to the need or not to swab someone who has had contact with a positive, but is asymptomatic. In this case, the tracking makes little sense and we return to the initial speech on which I agree with the commissioner Riccardi. The second point, equally important, is instead linked to the closure of the path for a positive person. Today we have to certify the absence of positivity, but even in this case it could be he himself who “frees himself” by taking a tampon in the indicated places (pharmacies, private facilities, family doctors ed.) And then sending us the result . By eliminating these two steps – concludes the director of the Department – I believe that we would cancel at least 60-70 percent of the work, managing to concentrate on the cases in which it is really important to do a serious tracking. It is no coincidence that hospitals – having had the authorization to admit patients with asymptomatic Covid to the wards by creating a bubble to avoid contact with other patients – can finally face and respond to other pathologies. Otherwise it would have been a big problem because while the cases of Covid that degenerate into serious pathology are very few, in the last months in the province of Pordenone only 5 serious pneumonia have been seen, the other pathologies if not treated can become worrying and lead to death. “. The ball now passes to the Region where the greatest clash will be with the epidemiologists who on this front instead need to have the greatest number of data (read swabs) to indicate the flow of the infection. But virologists are also divided: some have baptized the soft line, others, on the other hand, are for the more rigid one.