Bergamo and Covid-19: How the Dark Can Turn to Light
| Autor: | Norberto Perico, Stefano Fagiuoli, Fabiano Di Marco, Andrea Laghi, Roberto Cosentini, Marco Rizzi, Andrea Gianatti, Alessandro Rambaldi, Piero Ruggenenti, Carlo La Vecchia, Guido Bertolini, Stefano Paglia, Ferdinando Luca Lorini, Giuseppe Remuzzi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Perico, N, Fagiuoli, S, Di Marco, F, Laghi, A, Cosentini, R, Rizzi, M, Gianatti, A, Rambaldi, A, Ruggenenti, P, La Vecchia, C, Bertolini, G, Paglia, S, Lorini, F, Remuzzi, G |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Latin Americans Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown and face mask Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Population Local organization COVID-19 in Bergamo 03 medical and health sciences SARS-CoV-2 infection spread 0302 clinical medicine Political science Development economics Pandemic Italian National Health Service lockdown and face masks SARS-CoV-2 containment measure 030212 general & internal medicine education lcsh:R5-920 education.field_of_study Bergamo hospital challenges and reorganization sars-cov-2 containment measures General Medicine 030104 developmental biology bergamo hospital challenges and reorganization covid-19 in bergamo italian national health service sars-cov-2 infection spread second wave of sars-cov-2 infection Perspective Medicine Tragedy (event) second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Medicine, Vol 8 (2021) Frontiers in Medicine |
| Popis: | The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, continues to spread rapidly. Here we discuss the dramatic situation created by COVID-19 in Italy, particularly in the province of Bergamo (the most severely affected in the first wave), as an example of how, in the face of an unprecedented tragedy, acting (albeit belatedly)—including imposing a very strict lockdown—can largely resolve the situation within approximately 2 months. The measures taken here ensured that Bergamo hospital, which was confronted with rapidly rising numbers of severely ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization, was able to meet the initial challenges of the pandemic. We also report that local organization and, more important, the large natural immunity against SARS-CoV-2 of the Bergamo population developed during the first wave of the epidemic, can explain the limited number of new COVID-19 cases during the more recent second wave compared to the numbers in other areas of Lombardy. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of coordinating the easing of containment measures to avoid what is currently observed in other countries, especially in the United States, Latin American and India, where this approach has not been adopted, and a dramatic resurgence of COVID-19 cases and an increase in the number of hospitalisations and deaths have been reported. |
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