Re: Covid 19
Inviato: 24 apr 2020, 9:33
Per puro caso giuseppone si è dimenticato di inserire i passaggi intermedi tra la domanda e quel pezzo di risposta, ma forse è stato pagato per farlo...
Era il 22 marzo, gli Usa avevano ancora la metà dei casi dell'Italia e meno di un decimo delle vittime dell'Italia, e l'Italia ha un sesto della popolazione degli Usa. Come tutti, anche loro speravano che l'epidemia potesse essere tenuta sotto controllo e non si spiegavano perché nel nostro paese stesse colpendo così duro; l'Italia aveva reagito allo stesso modo, sperando che l'epidemia cinese fosse come al solito una cosa relativa alla sola Cina e tardando tre settimane a prendere i provvedimenti che con il senno di poi sappiamo che avremmo dovuto prendere. Fauci non è stato né idiota né inadeguato, ha solo detto che non si spiegava come mai in Italia, dove i dottori "suoi colleghi e cari amici" sono "competenti e sanno come agire", l'epidemia avesse dilagato così disastrosamente. E' la stessa identica cosa che avrebbe potuto dire un dottore di Bologna sulla situazione di Codogno: "Bologna si trasformerà in una Codogno? No, credo proprio di no. Certo, le cose sono sempre imprevedibili, non puoi mai essere sicuro delle previsioni. Se guardiamo a quanto sta accadendo a Codogno non capiamo perché stiano soffrendo così terribilmente. C'è la possibilità che non abbiano chiuso tutto abbastanza in fretta..." ecc ecc
Doctor Anthony Fauci is the director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, and that is where he joins us from this morning. Doctor Fauci, thank you for making time for us. You just--
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, MD (Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases): Good to be with you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You just heard that report from our Liz Palmer about Italy. Are we on the same trajectory as Italy?
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: No, not necessarily at all. I mean, obviously, things are unpredictable. You can't make any definitive statement. But if you look at the dynamics of the outbreak in Italy, we don't know why they are suffering so terribly. But there is a possibility and-- and many of us believe that early on they did not shut out as well the input of infections that originated in China and came to different parts of the world. One of the things that we did very early and very aggressively, the President, you know, had put the travel restriction--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: --coming from-- from China to the United States and most recently from Europe to the United States because Europe is really the new China. Again, I don't know why this is happening there to such an extent, but it is conceivable that once you get so many of these spreads out, they spread exponentially and you can never keep up with this tsunami, and I think that's what unfortunately our colleagues and our dear friends in Italy are facing. They are very competent. It isn't that they don't know what they're doing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: I think they have a situation in which they've been so overwhelmed from the beginning that they can't play catch up. And in direct answer to your question, Margaret, it is may be, and I hope and I think it will be the case, that we will not be that way because we have from the beginning been able to put a bit of a clamp on it. We're going to get hit. There's no doubt about it. We see it in New York. New York is ter-- is terribly suffering. But the kinds of mitigation issues that are going on right now, the things that we're seeing in this country, this physical separation, at the same time as we're preventing an influx of cases coming in, I think that's going to go a long way to preventing us from becoming an Italy.
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Era il 22 marzo, gli Usa avevano ancora la metà dei casi dell'Italia e meno di un decimo delle vittime dell'Italia, e l'Italia ha un sesto della popolazione degli Usa. Come tutti, anche loro speravano che l'epidemia potesse essere tenuta sotto controllo e non si spiegavano perché nel nostro paese stesse colpendo così duro; l'Italia aveva reagito allo stesso modo, sperando che l'epidemia cinese fosse come al solito una cosa relativa alla sola Cina e tardando tre settimane a prendere i provvedimenti che con il senno di poi sappiamo che avremmo dovuto prendere. Fauci non è stato né idiota né inadeguato, ha solo detto che non si spiegava come mai in Italia, dove i dottori "suoi colleghi e cari amici" sono "competenti e sanno come agire", l'epidemia avesse dilagato così disastrosamente. E' la stessa identica cosa che avrebbe potuto dire un dottore di Bologna sulla situazione di Codogno: "Bologna si trasformerà in una Codogno? No, credo proprio di no. Certo, le cose sono sempre imprevedibili, non puoi mai essere sicuro delle previsioni. Se guardiamo a quanto sta accadendo a Codogno non capiamo perché stiano soffrendo così terribilmente. C'è la possibilità che non abbiano chiuso tutto abbastanza in fretta..." ecc ecc
Doctor Anthony Fauci is the director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, and that is where he joins us from this morning. Doctor Fauci, thank you for making time for us. You just--
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, MD (Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases): Good to be with you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You just heard that report from our Liz Palmer about Italy. Are we on the same trajectory as Italy?
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: No, not necessarily at all. I mean, obviously, things are unpredictable. You can't make any definitive statement. But if you look at the dynamics of the outbreak in Italy, we don't know why they are suffering so terribly. But there is a possibility and-- and many of us believe that early on they did not shut out as well the input of infections that originated in China and came to different parts of the world. One of the things that we did very early and very aggressively, the President, you know, had put the travel restriction--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: --coming from-- from China to the United States and most recently from Europe to the United States because Europe is really the new China. Again, I don't know why this is happening there to such an extent, but it is conceivable that once you get so many of these spreads out, they spread exponentially and you can never keep up with this tsunami, and I think that's what unfortunately our colleagues and our dear friends in Italy are facing. They are very competent. It isn't that they don't know what they're doing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: I think they have a situation in which they've been so overwhelmed from the beginning that they can't play catch up. And in direct answer to your question, Margaret, it is may be, and I hope and I think it will be the case, that we will not be that way because we have from the beginning been able to put a bit of a clamp on it. We're going to get hit. There's no doubt about it. We see it in New York. New York is ter-- is terribly suffering. But the kinds of mitigation issues that are going on right now, the things that we're seeing in this country, this physical separation, at the same time as we're preventing an influx of cases coming in, I think that's going to go a long way to preventing us from becoming an Italy.
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