- As Italy’s death toll and infection continue to rise, one small Italian village has bucked the trend.
- Vo Euganeo has lowered its infection rate by stringent testing.
- Unfortunately, the US has stumbled comically behind in terms of testing.
Italy’s death toll recently surpassed China, and the infections seem to balloon every day. As the coronavirus continues to batter the country, some parts of Italy have managed to buck the trend.
How did they do it? By succeeding where, up to this point, the United States has miserably failed.
Testing. Testing. And more testing.
“An Alarming Portion of People Were Already Positive For the Virus”
Northern Italian village, Vo Euganeo, has a population of only about 3, 1016 people. According to the Independent, the town started vigorously testing its inhabitants. They found that nearly 3% of their population (about people) had tested positive.
Crisanti and his team ordered the infected patients to stay home. He even asked them to avoid hospitals, as they “could be a major source of infection.”
The result? The second round of testing showed just a 0.3% infection rate. Crisanti continues:
We were able to show that isolating all the positive cases allowed us to reduce the rate of infection.
The governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, just named Vo Euganeo “ the healthiest place in Italy. ”
The US Is Still Woefully Behind On Coronavirus Testing
The United States, meanwhile, Continues to lag behind in the testing department. The mistakes they’ve made would be funny if it weren’t so horrifying.
The US ranks close to the bottom in the testing rate. | Source:
Then, he decided against using private companies and WHO for testing kits.
Then, the CDC mass -produced tests that did not work.
according to Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard University:
The incompetence has really exceeded what anyone would expect with the CDC This is not a difficult problem to solve in the world of viruses.At every point, America has been lagging behind in testing compared to countries like South Korea, which has slowed the spread.
It seems like the US still hasn’t learned. While testing is slowly starting to ramp up,
Crisanti said:
The real problem is asymptomatic people who test positive. If we continue to let them wander around, we will never get rid of the epidemic.
The fact that the US government is still letting these crowds gather is an abomination. While Trump focuses most of his energy on the stock market, the U.S. is facing an unprecedented health crisis, unprepared.
But hey,
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(This article was edited by Sam Bourgi
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