Thread by @yaneerbaryam

The advisor to the Minister of Health:

"Here is the winning strategy against Covid: it also provides for the lockdown"

"Enough yo-yo between partial closures and reopening"

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"To beat the virus, Italy must make a courageous choice: adopt the "No Covid strategy", which also includes a lockdown, the only one that allows you to get out of the "vicious circle" of "months of yo-yo between partial closures and reopening ".

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"Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health for the Covid emergency and public health scholar, writes it in today's "Avvenire", explaining that "mass vaccination", while essential, "will take months if not years to guarantee adequate protection".

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"In the meantime, a "strategy to return to an acceptable equilibrium is needed, that of eliminating viral transmission, capable of restoring citizens to an almost normal life" and "recovering the economic losses caused by the pandemic".

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"Six actions, according to Ricciardi, to implement this "No Covid strategy", which requires "significant initial investments" but "is enormously more advantageous" because it is able to "bring entire countries, but also regions or sub-regional areas,..

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"to eliminate the virus in 5-6 weeks:

1) Define the 'protected' zones to be released. 2) Activate a communication and motivation campaign for the implementation of the strategy. 3) Create a 4-5 week lockdown together to support measures and economic protection.

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4) Convert hotels and other structures into residences for isolation and quarantine. 5) Quarantine travelers arriving from outside the protected areas in these structures. 6) Reopen all activities in the Green Zones released from the virus (Green Zones) ".

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"Important for success are "restrictions on mobility, especially non-essential travel" because "they allow virus-free countries to preserve the benefits obtained with lockdowns".

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"The effective adoption of this strategy "would require a firm decision by governments" or a "bottom-up path, promoted by cities, provinces, regions or countries that are ready to do what is necessary to eliminate the coronavirus".

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