![]() Much of the article focuses on Bergamo, where a friend of mine caught the disease. The man’s test came back positive that same evening and he became Italy’s first known locally transmitted case of Covid-19. 20, Annalisa Malara, a doctor in the town of Codogno, in Lodi province, decided to break the protocol and test a 38-year-old man with serious pneumonia who was not responding to standard treatments. at the end of January, which essentially limited testing to people linked to China. They also trusted Italy’s new and narrower protocols, adopted from the W.H.O. The region has business ties to China, and local infectious disease doctors had kept an eye on the coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan. Throughout flu season, some local family doctors in the Lombardy region had noticed strange pneumonia cases and were prescribing more scans than usual. Very little new information has come to light since then. I wrote about Patient 0 much earlier this year (see the entry Patient 0/200). The New York Times ran a retrospective on what happened in Northern Italy in the critical early days of the first wave. ![]() One theory is that it is because we have an elderly population, but that is not enough. The reasons for the high death toll remain a mystery. ![]() University of Turin Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Professor Lorenzo Richiardi told La Stampa daily on December 4: Italy overtook the UK and now has Europe’s worst virus death toll: There are specific exceptions on specific days (December 28, 29 & 30 and January 4) but the differences are quite nuanced.Īll flights from the United Kingdom are banned until January 6, 2021 It represents a temporary reprieve from the new new normal, which we're all about to face once again.ĭecemto January 6, 2021: a curfew will be in place from 10:00pm to 5:00am. Turin is almost entirely open today, which feels very unusual. Apollo reports that certain exhibition spaces will be open to those getting vaccination. In brighter news, Castello di Rivoli, a large contemporary art museum in Turin, is becoming a vaccination site. Both health workers and patients have contracted the virus across various wards. And if you're in Turin, please do drop me a line at We'll grab a coffee.Ĭovid cases in Turin are likely to increase in the coming weeks after an outbreak in San Giovanni Bosco hospital. I hope you found reading the blog as informative as I did writing the blog. Thanks to the roughly 20,000 people who read this effort. I'm happy to have a local record of the last tumultuous year, written from the unique perspective of an American ex-pat. The present moment seems like a good time to retire □□ The Corona Virus in Turin, Italy. Geopolitical concerns and fights over vaccine distribution are outside the scope of this blog. My writing covered small events in my life and regional events and trends. I started this blog to cover the impact of COVID-19 on Turin and our surrounding area our region was overshadowed by the more dramatic events happening in neighboring Lombardy. The vaccine has turned this global phenomenon into a geopolitical game. Overall it appears EU has exported half the doses made here. These two countries also seem to have benefited from the EU's vaccine manufacturing:Įven US has received vaccine exports from EU: 1 million in February, and 3.9 million doses of Johnson & Johnson a few weeks ago according to the New York Times. But they both seem to be in a better place than Italy today. There is much to be said about the US/UK's handling of the virus. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been pulled in many markets, a move that reflects an abundance (over-abundance?) of caution, and subsequently re-instated. Turin slid back into the red zone several days ago as Europe struggles to secure and disseminate the vaccine to its population. ![]() Layout( yaxis_type = "log", xaxis_title_text = "Date", yaxis_title_text = "Total # of Cases (logarithmic)") fig = go. Scatter( mode = 'lines+markers', name = 'Total Cases in Piedmont (Turin)', x = piemonte, y = piemonte, line_shape = 'spline', marker = dict( size = set_attributes( piemonte, 0, 12), opacity = 1), line = dict( color = piemonte_color, width = 4), marker_color = set_attributes( piemonte, piemonte_color, 'crimson')) layout = go. Scatter( mode = 'lines+markers', name = 'Total Cases in Lombardy (Milan)', x = lombardia, y = lombardia, line_shape = 'spline', marker = dict( size = set_attributes( lombardia, 0, 12), opacity = 1), line = dict( color = lombardia_color, width = 4), marker_color = set_attributes( lombardia, lombardia_color, 'crimson')) piemonte_data = go. size attributes = * size attributes = unique_attribute # March 8th attributes = unique_attribute # October 7th return attributes lombardia_data = go. ![]() Def set_attributes( data, attribute, unique_attribute): size = data. ![]()
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