Thanks Burnsome ..., I'm quite well (apart from the sinusitis that will only pass to me when I go to the sea). I protect myself from the virus by staying at home as much as possible. Here in Padua (keep in mind that one of the first University Medical Faculties in the world was born here in 1222) we are fortunate to have a University Clinic of Microbiology which, unique in Italy, has a machine capable of analyzing up to 10,000 swabs for day. Therefore all health professionals and all citizens suspected of being asymptomatic positive are tested. But nevertheless you must always be very careful. In Jesolo, a seaside town 80 km from here, a hunter friend called the family doctor because his father had a light heart attack. Result: the hunter and his wife are virus positive and at home in isolation, the father and mother are in the resuscitation room for viral pneumonia. The family doctor was positive and infected everyone.
In Italy we are not unlucky, because we have one of the most efficient public health systems in the world. A small part of the salary is withheld from all to pay the national health system. We all do not pay hospitalizations and hospital treatments, we only pay the tiket for medicines, for specialist visits, for medical and diagnostic analyzes when we are not hospitalized. The family doctor and all hospital doctors are also paid by the National Health System. When you enter the hospital, they do not discriminate between young and old. In fact, the elderly have a specialized geriatric department. The big problem in Italy was the massacre of old people hosted in the RSA (nursing homes for the elderly) and the high number of deaths among: hospital doctors (100), family doctors (51), nurses (34), social workers healthcare (18), pharmacists (13). The coronavirus has spread because all these operators (especially those who worked with the elderly) did not have adequate protection. Masks, glasses, gloves, aprons are missing .......
