Doctors Without Borders, usually dispatched to the third world when disasters strike, working triage in Italy’s prosperous north.The coronavirus outbreak tearing through Italy has turned a nation that usually donates medical expertise and equipment abroad into a country in need. 1 was transferred from Codogno. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/not-a-wave-a-tsunami-italy-hospitals-at-virus-limit CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential international travel to Italy. It was a remarkable turnabout, with the country where the virus broke out late last year offering assistance to the European epicenter, now that its own caseload is in retreat.Francesco Rocca, head of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent and himself an Italian, choked up as the pallets were offloaded from the China Eastern Airlines charter flight.“We, the Italian Red Cross, are not used to receiving donations,” Rocca said. But the agency has emphasized that its estimate is a crude mathematical calculation and that the true death rate is likely to be far lower. Officials in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere have estimated the death rate is likely closer to about 1%.Death rates often fluctuate during the early stages of an outbreak because officials are mostly looking for the most severe cases. As of Thursday, 650 doctors and nurses had applied and 100 had been hired, said Lombardy health chief, Giulio Gallera.But it’s not enough. Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.ROME (AP) — Talk of a 400-bed field hospital in Milan’s fairgrounds. If you get sick in Italy … According to data from China, the death rate in Wuhan was nearly 6% versus 0.7% in other parts of the country. It’s a tsunami,” said Dr. Roberto Rona, in charge of intensive care at the Monza hospital. The extra support of nurses, epidemiologists and other experts will enable the hospitals to reopen 20 more beds to patients.But in some hospitals, even with extra hands to help, there simply aren’t enough beds to go around.“We cannot continue to accumulate patients,” Gallera said. Send your videos to the PBS NewsHourShields and Brooks on Trump’s RNC message, the politics of protests1 dead in Portland after Trump supporters, protesters clashFBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Lombardy alone accounts for 55% of the infected and 70% of the dead. There are no suspected cases of coronavirus in Monza. “Now is the time to show it.”Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
The government has imposed a nationwide lockdown, closing stores and restaurants, curbing public transport and telling the population of 60 million to stay home except for absolute need.On Friday, Italy welcomed a team of nine Chinese doctors and nurses as well as 11 tons of ventilators, monitors, protective masks and other surplus medical equipment. WHO reported that in China’s outbreak, nearly 22% of people over 80 who caught COVID-19 died.The average age of Italy’s dead is 80.3; only 25.8% of them are women.As Italy continues the battle, it is urging others to wake up and get prepared. MICROTECNICA SRL is located in BRUGHERIO, MONZA E BRIANZA, Italy and is part of the Control, Electromedical, Measuring & Navigational Instruments Manufacturing Industry. Key Points.