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Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave

https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-dead-idUKKBN28O20I

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ROME (Reuters) -In late November doctor Maurizio Cappiello visited more than 130 patients in the emergency room of Cardarelli hospital, in the southern Italian city of Naples. More than two-thirds had COVID-19.

The virus which was limited mainly to Italy’s industrial north during the first wave in the spring was now also ravaging the poor south, overwhelming its fragile public health system.

“Despite our efforts it was impossible to help them as we would have wanted and to transmit a sense of humanity, we tried to be fast and concentrate on the most critical,” Cappiello, a top official at Italy’s national ANAAO-ASSOMED doctors’ union, told Reuters.

Campania, the populous region around Naples, numbered just 430 coronavirus deaths by June 15. The total has now risen to more than 2,300 as Italy’s overall death toll has overtaken Britain’s to become the highest in Europe.

The first Western country to be hit by the virus in March, Italy won plaudits for seemingly getting its outbreak under control by the summer. Now questions are once more being asked about why more people apparently die of COVID-19 in Italy than in other wealthy nations.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2020, 10:26:41 pm »
Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave

https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-dead-idUKKBN28O20I

Look to the Migrants and I bet you find a link. 
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Re: Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2020, 12:35:51 pm »
I was told that Europe had done it right. Well maybe Sweden.
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Re: Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2020, 01:49:21 pm »
Look to the Migrants and I bet you find a link.

Specifically, the Chinese immigrants in Chinese factories making garments with 'made in Italy' stamped on them.

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Re: Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2020, 01:50:56 pm »
Specifically, the Chinese immigrants in Chinese factories making garments with 'made in Italy' stamped on them.
Exactly. The first wave resulted when China sent hundreds of infected garment/leather workers from Wuhan to Italy.
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Re: Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2020, 02:56:52 pm »
As Dean Martin said, The second wave will hit your eye like a big pizza Pie,
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Re: Why us again? Italy suffers disproportionate toll in second COVID wave
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2020, 09:54:28 pm »
It was well-documented in the earliest days of the pandemic that Italy ALWAYS does worse in terms of seasonal virus impacts than other European nations and that basing our response on them risks grossly overreacting to the threat.
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