Italy, he said, waited too long after infections started ticking up in September and October to impose restrictions and didn't reinforce its medical system sufficiently during the summertime lull. “If you look at France and the U.K., you can see Italy did fare much worse,” he said. Doctors have blamed systemic problems with Italy’s health care system, especially in hardest-hit Lombardy, for failing to respond adequately. They have cited the growth of private hospitals in Lombardy in recent years at the expense of public ones. Nearly 80,000 Italian health care workers have been infected and 255 doctors have died.

Source: Daily Sun December 12, 2020 19:41 UTC