Italy has struggled mightily this year with the coronavirus, a cracking medical infrastructure and a rising death toll.
Italians break out in song amid coronavirus crisis; Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg reports from Florence, Italy.
“In one small town near Venice, where aggressive testing and retesting was employed — even of people with NO symptoms — coupled with contact tracing and strict quarantines, the spread of the virus was completely stopped, showing that South Korea’s approach can be applied in other countries with great success.
Compared to much of Europe and even the world, Italy also has one of the longest life expectancies, averaging 82.5 years, according to the World Bank. By comparison, the U.S.'s is 78.6. Based on what scientists know so far about the coronavirus, officially referred to as COVID-19, the older one is, the more vulnerable they are to dying from associated complications spurred on by the infection.
It was on February 18 that doctors in the small northern town of Codogno confirmed what was believed to be the first “non-imported” coronavirus case in a 38-year-old man who was hospitalized with a persistent and dangerously high fever. But the viral bomb exploded with full force, and the healthcare system quickly reached a critical point.
“At the very beginning, this was an issue due to political competition between regions and the central government who did not seem to understand the situation,” he explained.
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