Top Italian Epidemiologist: New Coronavirus Cases No Cause for Panic

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

The president of the Italian Society of Anti-infection Therapy (SITA) said Thursday that while new positive tests for coronavirus are appearing in Italy, numbers in intensive care units (ICU) are “constantly decreasing” and most new cases are asymptomatic and “healthy.”

Dr. Matteo Bassetti, who is also the director of Infectious Diseases at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, said that people need to look beyond the number of “new cases,” which are the least important of the data emerging on the coronavirus.

“The data released yesterday by the Ministry of Health tells us that those hospitalized in ICU (48) and other hospital departments are constantly decreasing,” Dr. Bassetti noted. “This is in the face of an increase in the number of subjects showing positive results for SarsCov-2, that is, of subjects who are in the main asymptomatic, healthy carriers of the virus.”

“It is evident that today everything is very different from 5 months ago,” he said.

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