Only carefully conducted epidemiological studies will bring to light exactly how and why COVID-19 took off in northern Italy with such speed. I recommend the rest of the world do this, to not send COVID patients into health-care facilities that are still uninfected." "Some facilities refused to take in the positive patients. Foresti has conducted a study on the mortality rate in four different towns in northern Italy: Nembro, Pesaro, Cernusco sul Naviglio and Bergamo. He estimates 90 per cent of the additional deaths in northern Italy so far this year are from coronavirus and only 10 per cent due to unrelated illnesses.

Source: CBC News April 02, 2020 08:00 UTC