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. 2021 Feb 1;21(1):117-119.
doi: 10.17305/bjbms.2020.4847.

Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic in Italy - A commentary

Antonio Minni  1 , Massimo Ralli  1 , Francesca Candelori  1 , Fabrizio Cialente  1 , Lucia Ercoli  2 , Claudio Parlapiano  3 , Antonio Greco  1 , Marco De Vincentiis  4
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Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic in Italy - A commentary

Antonio Minni et al. Bosn J Basic Med Sci. .

Abstract

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Italy has been one of the most affected countries in Europe and the second for number of deaths. In this commentary, we discuss some lessons that we learned as health-care providers working in a large public hospital during the pandemic, with a special focus on the importance of infection containment and early diagnosis, the role of swab, serological tests, home isolation and individual protection devices, and the available therapies and management indications to better face a possible new outbreak in the near future. These comments should stimulate a more diffused, efficient, and efficacious management of COVID-19 patients, also reducing the number of admissions to hospital emergency departments and the related spread of the infection.

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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interests

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