4 hours agoItalian doctors remember the night that sparked the first isolation in Europe
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)A year ago, Laura Ricevoti and Annalisa Malara, both doctors at the hospital in Codagno, Italy, found that something different was happening with a patient in intensive care. Their decision to handle this case has resulted in national emergency, as they have identified the first case with coronary in this [...]
A year ago, Laura Ricevoti and Annalisa Malara, both doctors at the hospital in Codagno, Italy, found that something different was happening with a patient in intensive care.
Their decision to handle this case has resulted in national emergency, as they have identified the first case with Coronavirus in this area, which has later sparked the first isolation in Europe.
A 38-year-old healthy, known as Mattia, his first name, or “patient a”, has gone to a world with a high fever, cough and breathing problems.
On February 18, 2020, he had refused to lie in the hospital, so he had only received antibiotics and had gone home.
Later in the day, he has returned to a more serious position and has started oxygen therapy.
Two days later Mattias's wife told doctors that a few weeks ago he was at dinner with some colleagues in China.
But Mattia didn't meet the criteria for mandatory testing for coronarys, because she wasn't in China personally.
I had to explain several times why I wanted to be tested for coronary”, Malara, 39.
“The Malara project and I have decided to break protocol”, recalls Ricevati.
They took the test and sent samples to Milan.
At 9:30 a.m., the phone was heard. The test was positive.
We couldn't believe it. We thought this was a very far-off problem dealing with China, but it was there with us, and not just February 20th, but maybe even earlier, said Ricevoti, 44-year-old.
In the coming days, Cogodno, a town of 15,000 people, has been returned to “, headquartered by “, the first redzone” that is isolated in Europe.
I've originally hoped we'd all hope that the virus would be limited to a few”, Malara said.
But after a few hours many people came to the emergency room with the same symptoms, and after a few days it was clear that the virus was spread to the population”.
Since then, 95,000 people have died in Italy from COVID-19 disease, which causes coronarys at once the highest figure in Europe after Britain and seventh on the world list.
Both women are still treating patients with COVID-19.
This is our mission. We can't retreat”, Ricevati said.
By day by day, we move forward, face the difficulties and changes that come with life... it takes great physical and mental power”, she said among other things.
