The letter of scientists about the coronion that was buried… Why?

The country from last Saturday and for three weeks initially (although everything shows that "come-go" will be the new motto of life), entered a second in 8 months universal lockdown (traffic ban in Greek), due to the exponential situation of the spread of the new coronavirus in the community, with immediate consequence, as presented, the increase of admission to hospitals and ICUs of the most serious cases, the increase of deaths and the burden on hospitals.

All this, if it were not for the new lockdown, as announced orally by the Prime Minister, but also by the head of the Special Committee for Infectious Diseases, Sotiri Tsiodra, would lead, if left unchecked, to the dramatic picture of who enters and who does not enter the ventilator and there, even more cynically, who is saved and who is not.

However, what made an impression was an aversion on Thursday afternoon from Megaro Maximou to the speech of the infectious disease specialist Sotiris Tsiodras: "From the past experience with other viruses and the original of the flu virus, we knew that the second wave in such viruses is always more exponential and aggressive… ». But, if they knew 8 months ago, what did they do to prevent us from getting here and a second lockdown?

How far did they go with what they recommended then or how do they explain in practice the non-implementation of their scientific recommendations at best or their "disappearance" at worst? Was it a political decision on which they preferred to remain silent? But, if this is so, then the prime minister himself is not exposed, who in a dramatic tone from Maximou declared that "political decisions are my responsibility, but they are based on scientific data which cannot be disputed, just like the scientific data that I receive daily from the scientists…”?

The revealing document

A document revealed today by the newspaper "Nea Kriti" dated March 16, 2020, five days after the first lockdown on 11/3/2020, may finally give the explanation why we got here, the second lockdown appears approximately as a one-way street

. It is surprising that during this entire period (from mid-September), when we saw cases doubling at regular intervals, there was not a population study at the same time, showing us what the real situation is, the totality of asymptomatic and non-cases in the country. This should be of particular concern to scientists and the state. Even worse that, as everything seems, if we continue to proceed like this with a mediocre level of information in this particular area, what will happen after the end of this lockdown will remain stubbornly unanswered until the next lockdown... If they believe that the quarantine itself and until the vaccines come with safe use will save us, then the reality of a nightmare scenario may turn out to be still ahead of us, considering that they are talking about an outbreak of the virus, at a time when it is not yet winter and when many are even now bathing in the sea.

The crucial letter that was "buried"

On March 16, 2020, a particularly important, highly sensitive and, above all, fully reasoned letter arrives at the office of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and four other critical state institutions, signed by 9 leading scientists of their kind, many of whom They then played or still play key roles, either in the Special Committee of Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health, which suggests all measures for SARS-CoV-2 in Greece, or as heads of committees and programs funded to deal with the new coronavirus in Greece.

The letter is rightly quoted from its preface in an "aggressive" model for virus testing, "...not only for the part of the diagnosis but also for the part of "reading" the population", which "will make it possible both to identify potential nuclei and to make a better modeling of the dynamics of the virus in general and to take measures with higher resolution and efficiency based on a more accurate representation of the actual dispersion'. That is, a mass, with protocols, epidemiological "scanning" with scanning (research) - screening (sorting) in the community, of the entire country, so that the speed can be seen, the points, the way and places of spread of the virus, for targeted strategic interventions, with the aim of society functioning smoothly and shielding those groups of the population that are judged to need to be protected depending on the anthropo-geography and the speed of spread of the new coronavirus.

In fact, as they emphasized at the time, the intensity of this great epidemiological check should coincide with the end of the lockdown of March 11, just so that not a single day is lost with the "relaxation of the measures", so as not to find ourselves in the same situation again!

As noted, "σημαντικό it is important to start the tests immediately and to be ready when the measures are relaxed to carry out" aggressive "laboratory testing in order to continue systematically monitoring the development of the epidemic, as we do not know how the situation will develop in the coming months. In this context, we propose the mobilization of all available diagnostic infrastructures in Greece (academic and research centers, hospital laboratories with proven experience in analytical methodologies related to virus detection) so that the basic needs can be met first (perhaps with brute force and with more traditional and time-consuming laboratory approaches) and, secondly, to make it possible to perform thousands of tests per day to better deal with the epidemic and to take more effective measures at the right time. All this can and must be done without interrupting or affecting the existing system of diagnosis and medical intervention… ".

In fact, then, explicitly and unequivocally, the signatories, some of whom today are among the main proponents of the new lockdown as the "only solution" to the speed, as they say, of the spread of the virus, emphasized emphatically:

"There are three immediate goals:

1. Contribute to meeting immediate needs for screening under the existing plan, given that the number of patients is increasing exponentially
2. Intensive monitoring of test positive individuals in order to quickly isolate themselves and individuals in their immediate environment.
3. Screening in the population with a specific plan, to understand the dynamics and to predict generalized or focused outbreaks ".

INFORMATION OF THE… SURPRISED

A revealing assumption

In fact, in this letter, dated March 16, they reveal the impressive fact, that "… in this direction, a consultation has been held with the heads of most centers that co-sign this text and with members of the Committee of the Ministry of Health (Prof. Tsiodras, Prof. Lagiou, Prof. Majorkinis). A preliminary discussion has been held with EODY (Mr. Sapounas) regarding the intensive monitoring of people who test positive.

- We propose the establishment of a technical committee for the immediate preparation of the above plan under the coordination of the Committee of the Ministry of Health.

"We also propose the suspension of all non-emergency molecular biology experiments for research purposes in all the aforementioned carriers, in order to record reagents and store them for use in patients undergoing COVID-19 in the event of a lack of reagents."

That is, they reveal that members of the Commission and EODY have been informed about the whole action, who today declare "surprised by the speed of the spread of the virus in the last week" and resort as a one-way street to the scientific suggestion for lockdown, when for 8 months, as of things turns out, they did nothing of what they knew by then fully accepting the reasoning of the letter and some of them co-signing it !!!

WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED

What is the fate of the letter that was sent eight months ago?

This letter, which essentially signaled 8 months before what had to be done to control the way, time and points of spread of the virus in the general population, in order to make strategic interventions to protect sections of the population even geographically, that would have such a need, but the rest of the population to function normally, without reaching a second lockdown, with unknown consequences on society, health - and mental - economy and life across the country, may have arrived on the same day in the office of the prime minister, however, from the very next day it was "buried" or even forgotten by its inspirers and of course such an "aggressive" epidemiological record in three axes, as we have seen, never happened. On the contrary, several of the signatories continued to be used in other areas as members of the Commission that took over the management of the crisis that brought us to the second lockdown, others as head of funded projects that did not go ahead and others, disappointed by the non-response, continued to give battle from other bases of their own.

The statement of Apostolos Vantarakis, professor of Hygiene at the Department of Medicine of the University of Patras, president of the Panhellenic Association of Life Scientists, just the day before yesterday on Radio 98,4, is typical, even for the "emblematic action" (epidemiological recording in the population) He said that it started a few days ago from university laboratories in Athens and Thessaloniki: "Since August 6 university laboratories in Patras, but also all university laboratories throughout Greece, we are waiting for a reply email for our participation in this action and more We have not received a response (November 3), although all diagnostic infrastructures were available in Greece, academic and research centers and hospital laboratories with documented experience in analytical methodologies related to virus detection…

It seems that a more closed circuit with limited possibilities and geographically is preferred, at a time when all of us can not have any access to data and data, except for the few and select ones provided by the Commission and EODY… I am afraid that some made the pandemic a profession ".

Signatures of top

It is worth noting that the letter we are revealing today of March 16, 2020 is signed by, among others, persons who play or have played a decisive role in the scientific committees as experts for the management of the whole situation, only it seems that most of them forgot what they signed in March 2020 or were given the opportunity to deal with other funded programs and not with the major issue of full population census through targeted epidemiological actions and tests.

The letter was then signed by: Prof. Emmanuel Dermitzakis (University of Geneva School of Medicine, president of the National Research, Technology and Innovation Council), Prof. Pagona Laiou (director of the Laboratory of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, EKPA), Prof. Gikas Majorkinis (Laboratory of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, EKPA), prof. Vasiliss Gorgoulis (Department of Histology and Pathology, EKPA), dr. Vassilis Grigoriou (Chairman of the Board of the National Research Foundation), Prof. Dimitris Thanos (Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Medical Biological Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens - IIVEAA), Prof. Giorgos Kollias (Chairman of the "Alexander Fleming" Biomedical Sciences Research Center), Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis (Chairman of the Board of the Research Technology Foundation - ITE), and Prof. Konstantinos Stamatopoulos (Director of the Institute of Applied Biosciences - INAB, EKETA).

For the only one we know, because of Crete, that he did not take a position in the Commission, nor did he receive a substantial response to the letter he co-signed, but he continued to act with FORTH forces and in fact pioneeringly seeking solutions and answers for the new coronavirus, is its president FORTH.

For the rest, let them answer themselves or be judged for the roles they took on, leaving to "her luck" a letter that the implementation of its content would probably have led us to avoid the second lockdown, which is already underway.

THE EXAMPLE OF SLOVAKIA

What was lost in 8 months        

To understand what was lost in 8 months, let's compare instead of an epilogue a well-known news for comparison:

"Almost the entire population of Slovakia (65%) underwent antigen testing for COVID-19 as part of a two-day program to examine all 5,5 million inhabitants of the country, in the hope that this will help stop the pandemic without a strict lockdown may need to be imposed. This is the first time such a program has been implemented in a country of this size. The Slovak government, after preparing in July with the purchase of adequate rapid tests, tested almost the entire population, except for children under 10 years of age. "More than 40.000 doctors, nurses and support teams, consisting of soldiers, police, civil servants and volunteers, staffed the approximately 5.000 clinics where the tests were performed."

They had 8 months to prepare since the issue erupted in March. So do states that plan well…

View here the document, revealed today by the newspaper "Nea Kriti" dated March 16, 2020, five days after the first lockdown on 11/3/2020, may finally give the explanation why we got here, the second lockdown will appear approximately as one way.

https://www.neakriti.gr

IMPORTANT NOTE: The source is the newspaper Nea Kriti. The authors of iguru simply reproduce what the newspaper says, without being able to cross-check whether it is true or not as they have not been published by at least three authoritative sources. In no case do we take a positive or negative position in all of the above, which we simply quote your own information.