As rates of coronavirus infections finally fall in COVID-19-stricken Italy, some Italian doctors claim that the virus is losing its steam and becoming weaker. The WHO, however, warns there's no evidence to support those claims.
Public health officials stress there’s no scientific proof that the virus is now weaker. Until that proof is found, health authorities warn that the public cannot lower its defenses against the spread of the virus. But Bassetti promises the evidence is coming.
“We are not here to say that the virus is gone,” Bassetti says. “We are here to say that it is different.” He attributes these differences to a potential combination of things, including biological changes in the virus, and the success of the lockdown, social distancing, mask use, and hand-washing. Flattening the curve, Cameron adds, allows testing to catch up and makes medical care available to those who need it without delay.
In response to the WHO’s rebuttal of his claims, Bassetti says, “The WHO does not take care of patients. They are seated at a table in Geneva. These are the impressions of the majority of doctors on the ground. We have admitted more than 500 [COVID-19] patients at San Martino hospital since the beginning of the epidemic, and I have seen a dramatic reduction in the severity of the disease.”
It could be that the work of on-the-ground health care providers is responsible for this dramatic change, Cameron says. “I would lay the credit for the consistently improving patient outcomes in Italy right at the doctors’ and health care workers’ feet,” he says. “It’s a testament to their heroics that they’ve broken this virus’s back without much, if any, help from the virus itself. We will have to wait for virus sequencing studies and clinical studies to resolve the issue.”
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