Doctor’s story from the frontline of COVID-19 in Italy

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Doctor’s story from the frontline of COVID-19 in Italy

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Wednesday 11 March 2020, 02:29 PM

ICU doctor Daniele Macchini has taken to Facebook to tell the story of life at the frontline of the COVID-19 epidemic (Source: Humanitas Gavasseni)

A Facebook post by an Italian doctor Daniele Macchini, who works at the Humanitas Gavasseni hospital in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, has caught the attention of international media and social media for highlighting the crushing toll the virus is taking on his hospital’s services. The post was translated and posted by Silvia Stringhini, on Twitter

… instead of surgery you see the diagnosis, which is always the damned same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia "After much thought about whether

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