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To: elmatador who wrote (4692)	3/10/2020 3:12:43 PM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13777

Hi el, So much for the European health care for everyone for free. That's excellent insight. Someone needs to make that point (after this virus is history) with regards to our upcoming election. I suspect his name will be Trump. <smile> I have long maintained ,you can not give away something so valuable as health care and expect it to be of quality. That is why many my age continue to work, even though that have the monies to comfortably retire. You take care! Bob

To: elmatador who wrote (4692)	3/11/2020 1:08:38 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By elmatador Respond to of 13777

The COVID-19 epidemic officially began on February 20, when a 38-year-old man checked himself into a local hospital in the town of Codogno in Lombardy. He tested positive with the virus, becoming the first recorded patient with the COVID-19 virus in Italy. Yet some health officials believe that the virus arrived in Italy long before the first case was discovered. “The virus had probably been circulating for quite some time,” Flavia Riccardo, a researcher in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Italian National Institute of Health tells TIME. “This happened right when we were having our peak of influenza and people were presenting with influenza symptoms.” Before the first case was reported, there was an unusually high number of pneumonia cases recorded at a hospital in Codogno in northern Italy, the head of the emergency ward Stefano Paglia told the newspaper La Repubblica, suggesting it is possible patients with the virus were treated as if they had a seasonal flu. Health facilities hosting these patients could have become sites for infection, helping proliferate the spread of the virus. The northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, have been most affected by the outbreak. 85% of infected patients are in the region which is home to 92% of deaths so far. But the virus has been confirmed in all 20 regions of the country. > > > Why does Italy have such a high number of cases and deaths? Because the virus spread undetected, some officials believe this is the reason for such a high number of cases in the country. “This started unnoticed which means by the time we realized it, there were a lot of transmission chains happening,” Riccardo says, noting that this may be why Italy has seen such a high number of cases. - time.com