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. 2020 May:137:465-468.e1.
doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.03.179. Epub 2020 Apr 2.

Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy: Perspectives from the Bergamo Neurosurgery Department

Claudio Bernucci  1 , Carlo Brembilla  2 , Pierlorenzo Veiceschi  3
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Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy: Perspectives from the Bergamo Neurosurgery Department

Claudio Bernucci et al. World Neurosurg. 2020 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Italy; Neurosurgery; SARS-CoV-2.

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Figure 1
Trends of the infection in the 7 most infected Italian provinces from February 25 to March 20, 2020. In the recent weeks, there has been a significant increase in infections, and Bergamo holds the national record of coronavirus cases. The graph illustrates the overall number of patients who have tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, including those who are sick, already healed, and deceased, according to Italian Ministry of Health data.
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Figure 2
Red areas in Italy. (A) The first restriction measures were adopted for the little town of Codogno (between Cremona and Lodi) and Vo (near Padua). (B) On March 8, 2020, a decree of the Italian Prime Minister extended the red areas to the entire Lombardy (and to other 14 Italian provinces.(C) On March 9, 2020, the whole of Italy became a red area.
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Figure 3
Lombard neurosurgical reorganization during coronavirus disease 2019 emergency. The blue spots indicate spoke facilities. The red spots demonstrate the 3 hub hospitals taking care of neurosurgical emergencies, located in Varese, Brescia, and Milan; the green spot indicates the hospital designed for oncological surgery in Milan; the yellow spot shows Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, the only reference center for pediatric trauma.
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“Angels” by Franco Rivolli, 2020. This touching painting has been created by the Italian artist Franco Rivolli for the COVID-19 emergency. It portrays a doctor who is lovingly taking care of Italy, protected by a mask. The artist said it was a message of encouragement and gratitude for the exhausting work activity that Italian doctors and nurses are carrying out in this moment of global threat. We feel that this painting represents our efforts fighting COVID-19, since a copy has been exposed at the entrance of Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital. Copyright 2020 Franco Rivolli.
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