"as I posted more than a few months ago, when I called one of the company numbers in the US, I got a staff person who said something to the effect, "We have had lots of covid in the northern part of Italy, it made everything more difficult and late.""
You may have posted that somewhere, but you didn't say it here.
Are you now saying that an AlfaSigma representative attributed any slowness with their B trial progress to lots of covid in the northern part of Italy in a phone conversation with you?