BY enza76
Colonel Luca Parmitano, Italian Air Force officer with 25 years of service and 6 space missions behind him, engineer and astronaut of the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA) since 2009, said he was aware of the pandemic danger posed by the new coronavirus as early as November. Parmitano, who is the […]
BY enza76
This is the second part of Italian Study on Coronavirus Science. Drugs targeting inflammation and hypercoagulability Coagulation changes and thrombotic complications in Covid-19 patients play a significant role in terms of incidence and clinical importance, and represent one of the main variables linked to mortality. Abnormal coagulation parameters are associated with poor prognosis in patients […]
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In Italy, at one point the world’s most affected country, the numbers of the pandemic provoked by the novel coronavirus are continually, gradually decreasing, both in terms of cases of infection and severity of symptoms. Covid-19 intensive units in hospitals are discharging their patients. It’s important to understand why this is happening, because it can […]
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I tend to accept restrictions if they are justifiably motivated by serious health dangers. I must admit, though, that an episode raised my alarm about the motivations of our political leaders when in Lombardy, in Italy, police tried to interrupt a Mass which was attended by 15 people in a large church where they could […]
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It’s so fashionable and radical-chic to blame man, what he creates and what he produces for any environmental disaster, real or imagined, these days. Pollution and anthropogenic climate change spring to mind. During the coronavirus lockdown, which in Italy has strongly reduced car traffic in cities and country, these theories of how our air is […]
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The mistake pretty much everywhere has been treating seriously-ill Covid-19 patients with ventilators, which requires a highly-invasive surgery for intubation, the insertion of a tube attached to artificial ventilation into the trachea, and didn’t achieve a good rate of success. The hypothesis has now started to make headway that the main cause of death is […]
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BY enza76
Now that Italy has become the second country in the world after only China for number of Coronavirus cases, its number of confirmed infections has almost doubled in a couple of days from 5,061 on Saturday 7 March to 9,172 on Monday 9 March, and the whole country has been placed under lockdown, more than […]
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This is our second post on the subject, here’s the first on Coronavirus and Italy. Italian physician and psychiatrist Alessandro Meluzzi rightly described as paradoxical Italy’s current policy of “closed schools and open ports”, letting in migrants at such a time of emergency for Coronavirus (whose official name, which initially and temporarily was 2019-nCoV, is […]
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Italy is now the third country in the world for the number of infections caused by Coronavirus, after China and South Korea. I know that, for the blog of a travel website like this, talking about the spread of a disease – although we still don’t know what’s going to happen either in Italy or […]
