Editorial - June 2020

Dear members,

This time I would like to give all our members a personal message, a personal thought on clinical and research activity over time of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic. We live in a time of profound uncertainty, even scientific, and this uncertainty must be known to communicate. The importance of the accuracy and profound verification of scientific data has never been more evident than in this pandemic period, in which the circulation of an excessive, often too rapid amount of information on Covid-19, often unverified or unreliable, is causing an inevitable discomfort in the fight against disease. We are witnessing the spread of misinformation and a wave of anti-science and exhibitionism, even by a certain medical class and scientists, who opposes and sometimes offend the right attitude of resilience and caution that each of us, as clinicians and scientists, must adopt in the face of disease, as Hippocrates' jury taught us. We must all transform the experience of the pandemic into teaching and an invitation to return to that sobriety of behavior in the face of the disease  that must characterize us, and solid data, peer reviewed without the need for a rush. Very often, the right and rational hypotheses, also based on previous medical experiences, and taking the right time without haste, win.

Rosalinda Madonna, Chairperson

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