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Symptoms are quite different, though. And they are evaluated by the ‘medico di base’ (general practitioner) before requesting a viral test. So I am not clear on what could be confo…

As another resident (Milano), I think corruption is endemic in the regional health system. This is, of course, not to deny Lombardy healthcare compares well relative to that of mos…

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1) In what scale can we expect the economic slowdown to be? In the 2 digits. A working day weights between around .2% and .5% of annual GDP. 2) Will this be as bad as the 2008 rece…

101-year-old Italians are making the news so often lately: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-...

It is very hard not to think that also the number of deaths (not only that of cases) is under-reported. For instance, the Major of Bergamo, one of the few not entirely rotten polit…

Not entirely unnoticed, cfr: https://voxeu.org/article/intergenerational-ties-and-case-fa...

Mostly by fast tracking newly graduated, who normally have to attend a 2 to 6 year long specialty school. This would amount to around 10 000 new hires, according to the Ministry of…

he is breathing on is own since yesterday, still hospitalized

It was part coincidence. I had a week without teaching duties. But I packed for a long stay. What convinced me was the carefree attitude of many. Two examples: "Nothing to worry ab…

You are right about the leakage. The final decree places no restrictions on traveling back to residence, and even admits self-certification of other reasons for traveling. I am not…

I think the sequence of choices is what matters most. First they ‘quarantined’ Lombardia and some surrounding provinces. This looked nonsensical, or worse, as the contagion spread …