Doctor’s story from the frontline of COVID-19 in Italy

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Doctor’s story from the frontline of COVID-19 in Italy

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Vanessa Weenink

Covid-19

A Facebook post by Italian doctor Daniele Macchini, who works at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, caught the attention of international media and social media in recent weeks as he highlighted the crushing toll the virus was taking on his hospital’s services. The post was translated and posted by Silvia Stringhini, on Twitter

“After much thought about whether and what to write about what is happening to us, I felt that silence was not responsible. “I will therefore try