COUPLE OF CHINESE DISMISSAL, FIRST SICK IN ITALY: The emotional greeting to the top of the institute and to the doctors who treated them and 'pampered' for almost two months. "You saved our lives. We love Spallanzani, we love Italy" they said with shining eyes. After 49 days of hospitalization, the Chinese spouses - the first known cases of Coronavirus in Italy - left Spallanzani in Rome. They have been clinically healed for a few weeks, but the wife in particular will have to end the rehabilitation process. In the afternoon they left the institute for infectious diseases of the capital headed to the San Filippo Neri hospital.
For them, the transfer was arranged with an ambulance in bio-containment, a precaution not necessary since the couple recovered, but adopted to not engage an ambulance used for emergencies.
85ENNE WINS THE CODOGNO VIRUS, DISMISSED : He was hospitalized for a pericarditis in the medical department in Codogno, in the hospital where, with the discovery of the first positive case, that of Patient1, the Coronavirus emergency broke out. He was infected, then held in solitary confinement for almost a month, and today he returned home for Father's Day. It is the story of Giancarlo Bonvicini, 85 years old, a pensioner who, despite his age, managed to keep the virus at bay. He who was cheering as a child, went through a war, was a heavy smoker and was a painter by profession, remained asymptomatic and never got worse. He came out unscathed, and he only suffered a little loneliness. This morning, when he left, he was celebrated by the nurses. And he was moved and thanked them for being his 'guardian angels'. "He is the first recovered in the medicine of the Codogno hospital", proudly tells his son Flavio, who is the veterinarian of the town of Lodigiano. "He did it, it never got worse. He stayed there, isolated for almost a month: nobody could go to see him, we only talked to him on the phone. He was calm."
NEOMEDICO, READY FOR THE EMERGENCY : In the end, after weeks of appeals, petitions and posts on social media, the government listened to them. Giulia Lamperti, 26, is one of the thousands of recent medical graduates who have carried on, and won, the battle to enter the medical profession directly and thus help older colleagues to fight Coronavirus in Italy. And in the next few days, as a result of the Prime Minister's decree, he will take the field to Milan to help the other doctors who are now working at extraordinary rates to respond to the emergency, in Lombardy as in the rest of Italy. "Certainly I expected a softer entry into the world of work - he tells ANSA - but given the situation I am happy to make myself available to do whatever it takes". The battle of Giulia and her former classmates for the qualifying degree begins in late February, when the cases of Covid-19 in Lombardy are still relatively small. So when the government decides to postpone their qualification exam for the profession, they create the hashtag 'Let us enable' and launch an appeal to the MIUR, the Ministry of Health and the rectors of the various Italian universities.
'MEALS OUTSIDE THE DOOR, I'M SICK AT HOME ': A two-week nightmare: from the first symptoms, high fever and cough, to the fear of having been infected with the coronavirus, to get to the healing that has manifested in the last few days. It is the experience lived by Francesco, 55 years old, a professional who, together with his family (wife and two children), lives in an apartment in Pavia not far from the center. "About two weeks ago - says Francesco - I started not feeling well. I was worried above all by the fever, which exceeded 39, and a dry and persistent cough. I immediately thought it was coronavirus. I talked about it with the my family doctor, who advised me to put myself in solitary confinement and to treat myself with Tachipirina and a drug to relieve the annoyance of the cough ". Francesco also asked himself if it was not the case, considering his symptoms, to undergo a swab: "I also spoke to the infectious diseases clinic at the Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia on the phone: they were very kind and they explained to me that was not necessary, since, fortunately for me, I did not suffer from respiratory problems ".
DOCTORS OF BERGAMO: 'FEAR AMUTUTES THE SICK' : "Fear silences patients, they are afraid to ask about their own conditions, if they are serious, if they can hope, if they improve, if they get worse. They don't ask for anything, they suffer events Even young people do this. " Renata Colombi, head of the Emergency Department of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, tells of the Covid-19 patients who have been arriving in dozens of patients for 20 days, on average 60 per day, with a peak of a hundred on March 16th. "When they get here they all already have pneumonia. Who is more serious we keep it in the beds that we have set up in the emergency room until there are free places in intensive care. In a very short time we are recording a totally different behavior of the patients towards the health workers - he says - before the Coronavirus, those who came to the emergency room had already read information on the web and asked us what we would do to him, about the drugs, the therapies. The tone was not collaborative. Now it's gone no hostility: they entrust themselves to us blindly, they put themselves in our hands ".