Italy Deploys Emergency Field Hospitals To Fight Virus
March 4, 2020
4:50 pm
A blue tent packed with masked medics in nylon overalls and rubber gloves greets patients outside an Italian hospital at the European epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic.Welcome to the “sorting” room: an urgently deployed army-style field hospital where people running a fever or showing other flu-like symptoms are tested for signs of COVID-19.
Italy is learning fast from its mistakes.
One of them involved a single man — a 38-year-old codenamed “patient number one” — who developed pneumonia but was never isolated while he was treated in hospital, resulting in him unwittingly infecting other patients.
Italy’s 3,000 cases …
