Today, a conversation with a doctor in Bergamo, north of Milan, one of Italy’s hardest hit areas. Do we want to go the direction of South Korea and really be aggressive and lower our mortality rates? Or do we want to go the direction of Italy? michael barbaro And we have a choice to make as a nation. People, we are where Italy was two weeks ago in terms of our numbers. surgeon general warned that the United States is now on a strikingly similar path. We are at a critical inflection point in this country. Italy has quickly become the new epicenter of the pandemic, with nearly 30,000 infections and more than 2,000 deaths, numbers that are soaring by the day, even after the government there took extreme measures to lock down much of the country. This is how Italy’s cases have grown now for the last month - slowly at first, but now more rapidly. michael barbaroįrom the New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. I have been in my hospital every day, start of the crisis, Friday the 21st of February. So you have not been home in three weeks? dr. And I decide to come back at home one day.
After three weeks, today, in the afternoon, I am at home, because I have a big family with three children. And I’m really grateful that you’re making time for us. But then you will decide, OK? michael barbaro I don’t know if my English will be adequate for a podcast. And I think I can hear you - ah, now I can see you. fabiano di marcoĬan you see me? No, I think. Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: ‘It’s Like a War’ Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Clare Toeniskoetter and Kelly Prime, and edited by Lisa Chow We spoke to a doctor triaging care at the heart of the coronavirus crisis in Italy about what may lie ahead for the U.S. “This is a war,” said Massimo Puoti, the head of infectious medicine at Milan’s Niguarda hospital, one of the largest in Lombardy, the northern Italian region at the heart of the country’s coronavirus epidemic. Wealthy northern Italy is facing a version of that nightmare already. If not, even hospitals in developed countries with the world’s best health care risk becoming triage wards, forcing ordinary doctors and nurses to make extraordinary decisions about who may live and who may die. It has turned the hard hit Lombardy region into a grim glimpse of what awaits countries if they cannot slow the spread of the virus and ‘‘flatten the curve’’ of new cases - allowing the sick to be treated without swamping the capacity of hospitals. In less than three weeks, the coronavirus has overloaded the health care system all over northern Italy. Elsewhere, a nurse collapsed with her mask on, her photograph becoming a symbol of overwhelmed medical staff. In another town, patients with coronavirus-caused pneumonia were being sent home.
ROME - The mayor of one town complained that doctors were forced to decide not to treat the very old, leaving them to die.
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