Italian expert: Enough with fear, new positives are not infectious

Professor Giuseppe Remuzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research in Italy, says that the study of samples shows that viral loads is much lower.

The “Situate since the end of February has changed many”, he told Corriere della Sera.

We need to explain what's happening to people who are just scared when they hear the numbers. We conducted a study with positive tampons and proved to have an extremely low viral load, not infectious. We call them infected, but they're only positive people in the tampon test, in which they have so little RNA that they can't even infect cells. When they came in contact with the real ARN of the positives, those in March and early April, the cells died within a few hours”, the expert says.

He points out that “a study of the South Korea Center for Disease Prevention with over 285 asimtomatic people showed how 790 people were traced out who had direct contact with them. Can you tell how positive they proved to be? Zero!