Immuni, the appeal of family doctors: 'Downloading it is an act of love and can save lives'. «Downloading the Immuni app will help us contain new possible outbreaks and ultimately prevent the dramatic experience we have had since February from being repeated in autumn».
It is a unanimous voice that is raised by the FIMMG in Campania in favor of the Immuni application, which has been active throughout Italy since Monday 15 and which serves to trace and break the chain of contagion. After a week of testing in Liguria, Abruzzo, Marche and Puglia, the app, based on Bluetooth technology, has in fact debuted in the rest of the country. "We are ready to give our contribution once again - explains the deputy regional secretary of FIMMG Vincenzo Schiavo - also in helping patients who may have difficulty using their smartphone. We must implement every possible tool that helps us not to be caught unprepared when there may be a resurgence of the virus in the fall. Lowering our guard would be a very serious mistake".
The linchpins of care and containment in phase 1, general practitioners are stepping forward once again to support the stability of the national health system. "Family doctors," continues Schiavo, "are called to play a crucial role in this second phase as well as in October and November, when it will be time to start the vaccination campaign against seasonal flu. I hope that as many citizens as possible will choose to make a gesture of love towards themselves and towards others, especially towards the most fragile subjects, and download the app to make their contribution. Doing so means saving lives. Only in this way will we be able to return to normality by living with the virus while waiting for it to be definitively eradicated by a vaccine."
The system is based on Bluetooth Low Energy technology and does not use geolocation data of any kind, including GPS. The app does not collect and is not able to obtain any identifying data of the user, such as name, surname, date of birth, address, telephone number or email address. Immuni is therefore able to determine that contact between two users has occurred, but not who the two users actually are or where they met.
Article published on 16 June 2020 - 19:25
