.@WRicciardi "This is the first epidemic in the globalized world in which the speed of communication via social media is even faster than that of viruses. But there is no doubt that this is not a disease that can be underestimated." 1/8 
"We anticipating this emergency have exposed ourselves to public opinion worldwide. But in reality I think that the Italian situation is completely similar to the French and German one." 2/8
"It is not epidemiologically plausible that Italy has closed flights from China and accounts for more than 1,000 cases while Germany on the same date counts 100 wothout closing them." 3/8
"If we consider that more than 21,000 swabs have been made in Italy vs less than 1,000 in Germany, what difference is there? That in Italy more tests have been done to bring out the disease, while Germany and France have behaved differently." 4/8
"SARS-CoV2 syndrome presents in 80% of the cases the same symptoms of an acute respiratory infection of a mild degree, and also has the same course. The difference is that here in Italy we have named over 1,000 cases of simil flu syndrome by calling it Covid19." 5/8
"In 80% of cases the medical measures taken are the same, whether it's called Covid19 or it's called flu. The only real consequences of the French and German underdiagnosis are that people are calm and they are starting to worry only now." 6/8
"But the image of these Countries at the international level is firm and the economies hold up, while here in Italy we have become immediately "greasers" in the eyes of the world." 7/8
"We anticipating this emergency have exposed Italy to the public opinion worldwide. But in reality I think that the Italian situation is completely similar to the French and German one." @WRicciardi said this morning to @QSanit quotidianosanita.it/scienza-e-farm… 8/8
