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[Gold Dragon]

Mastrangelo: Answers to Italy's Complex Coronavirus Question

Undetected spread well before Patient One with connections to China

But experts now believe that the virus was spreading for weeks throughout the Lombardy region by the time the 38-year-old super spreader identified as Italy’s “Patient One” contracted the disease in February. Early contact tracing suggests that this individual may have gotten the virus from another European who had recently been to China.

“It spread around Lombardy, the Italian region that has by far the most trade with China and the home of Milan, the country’s most culturally vibrant and business-centered city,” the New York Times reported. But the person they called “Patient One” was probably “Patient 200,” Italian epidemiologist Fabrizio Pregliasco explained.

Slow responding leadership in denial

Another catalyst for Italy’s coronavirus crisis is its slow-moving government, followed by the government’s implementation of partial solutions, which only aided the disease’s proliferation.

When the coronavirus was initially discovered in Italy, many of the nation’s policymakers were skeptical, despite being warned that an epidemic was looming.

“How many people can’t go to work now because of an old man who’s 88 years old, who might have died of the flu?” proclaimed Chamber of Deputies member Vittorio Sgarbi in front of the Italian Parliament in late February, before repeatedly shouting, “This is fiction!”

But then Italy’s own notable politicians started going into quarantine, while others became infected with the disease themselves.

Hospitals getting overwhelmed and prioritizing the many young healthy people who were also needing admission and ICU.

While older patients are dying, the majority of coronavirus patients in Italian hospitals are younger, healthier people — and they’re being prioritized by hospital staff who are forced to overlook older, sicker patients in order to tend to those who are more likely to survive the Wuhan virus.

Among those occupying ICU beds, 12 percent are between the ages of 19 and 50, about 52 percent are between the ages of 51 and 70, and the remainder are over 70. Therefore, roughly 64 percent of coronavirus patients are reportedly under the age of 70.

And the average age of coronavirus patients keeps dropping, as one Italian nurse noted, “the average age has dropped, around 55, 60 years old — 30-year-old males also come in on an oxygen crisis,” reported Il Giornale.

The hospital system in northern Italy is one the finest in the country and in Europe. But even so, the coronavirus pandemic quickly overwhelmed the medical resources in this wealthy region of Europe.

With overcrowded hospitals running low on ICU beds, ventilators, and even supplies for their own doctors — many of whom are infected themselves — there are not enough resources to care for everyone.

“We can’t invent new intensive care unit beds,” explained doctor Marco Vergano of San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin.

 

[church mouse guy]

Italy is very poor and always has been. They were victims of the Chinese, who have the same building plans for Latin America as they have for Italy.

The USA needs to break all ties with the Chinese.

Italy was refused help by the EU & believed the WHO, controlled by China.

The USA is close to Italy because we have so many Italians who are now Americans.

We now have over 300,000 cases and that should double in 5 days. Indianapolis is hard hit and is a hotspot. However, we do have very advanced medical facilities because of Indiana Medical School, one of the largest medical schools in the USA.

 

[Calminian]

Mastrangelo: Answers to Italy's Complex Coronavirus Question

Undetected spread well before Patient One with connections to China


Slow responding leadership in denial


Hospitals getting overwhelmed and prioritizing the many young healthy people who were also needing admission and ICU.

Unfortunately, GD, you have a sever case of TDS. It cause you to seek out the most minute details to criticize.

Meanwhile, our Prez and VP are doing a fantastic job. Once you recover, you'll thank him.

Here's the real story.


LATEST NUMBERS: Govt. Models Overestimated Hospitalizations by 8 Times; ICU Beds by 6.4 Times; Ventilators Needed by 40.5 Times

Trump is having a dramatic effect on the estimated numbers.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Mastrangelo: Answers to Italy's Complex Coronavirus Question

Hmmm. That Breitbart headline does not describe that article at all. But the US has certainly long been way to entangled with China. It was Italy's undoing in this.