In this March 16, 2020, photo, Sergio Cattaneo, head of anesthesiology and intensive care at Brescia Ospedali Civili hospital, talks with The Associated Press about the coronavirus, in Brescia, Italy. "What is really shocking — something we had not been able to forecast and brought us to our knees — is the quickness the epidemic spreads,” Cattaneo said. "If the spreading of this epidemic is not put under control, it will bring all hospitals to their …
March 17, 2020
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Italy struggles to make room for onslaught of virus patients
BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Three weeks into Italy’s coronavirus crisis, Dr. Sergio Cattaneo has seen an unused ward outfitted into an intensive care unit in six days, a hospital laundry room converted into a giant stretcher-filled waiting room and a tented field hospital erected outside to test possible new virus patients.