I have a question about all these reports from Italy. I admit that reading the statements on here that are supposedly coming from doctors in Italy have concerned me. However, in all of the news media I am seeing reports that Italy has shut down its tourist industry and its public events.
I am not seeing news reports about hospitals overwhelmed and letting people die because they don’t have enough ventilators, and refusing to even treat many patients.
Unlike Communist China, Italy is not a closed society and it is open to the world media.
Am I missing these sensational news reports or are the and a dotal stories here exaggerated or untrue?
“I am not seeing news reports about hospitals overwhelmed and letting people die because they don’t have enough ventilators, and refusing to even treat many patients.”
Maybe all the reporters are dead from Corona?
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“I am not seeing news reports about hospitals overwhelmed”
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Have you tried looking at the news for Italy and “hospitals overwhelmed”?
“Italian hospitals overwhelmed by deaths amid coronavirus outbreak”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/12/nation/italian-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-deaths-amid-coronavirus-outbreak
Google works, too -
https://www.google.com/search?q=italy+hospitals+overwhelmed&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB5IKZy5XoAhVPG80KHc0hC7sQ_AUoAXoECAsQAw
Did a search on Italian healthcare and:
The healthcare system in Italy is a regionally based national health service known as Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN). It provides universal coverage to citizens and residents, with public healthcare largely free of charge.
I don't know the answer, but like Canada and others that provide "free" healthcare, it is not always the "best" healthcare. It appears they have a shortage of doctors and medical equipment. May be a simple as that.