Newsweek senior editor Kenneth R. Rosen fled from Europe to the U.S., escaping one quarantine and landing in another.
"I spoke to a doctor here who has friends in Germany," the barista said as she prepared a double espresso."It's not that they don't have cases there, it's that they don't do tests.""They don't know anything," the man said. He swirled sugar into his coffee.
In a matter of days this sentiment changed. Cases of the novel coronavirus, of which there had been murmurs, exploded across the Lombardy region. Adjacent to Veneto, the region in which we lived, Lombardy was home to Milan and one of the country's biggest international airports. Soon cases of the virus were reported there. As testing increased, thousands were reportedly sick and hundreds more were dying or dead. Towns within Lombardy went into lockdown.
Even though most deaths in Italy were patients over the age of 70 with pre-existing conditions, similar to the cases seen in China where the virus originated, one in five who tested positive for COVID-19 were between the ages of 19 and 50."Patient zero" was a 38-year-old man who, after three weeks of treatment, was beginning to breathe on his own.
"China put in place efficient, but not democratic, measures. Iran, which also isn't a democracy, didn't manage to do that," Matteo Renzi, the former Italian prime minister, toldThe story of Italy was that it wasted time. When I landed at Boston Logan International Airport I was certain what lessons were being learned in Italy would inform and direct efforts stateside. What had looked distant, what from afar seemed then manageable, meant a response was necessary if not possible.
As international arrivals into the U.S. were halted, as states recommended curfews and encouraged all nonessential businesses to close, the virus knew no boundaries.
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