Death at home: the unseen toll of Italy's coronavirus crisis

FILE PHOTO: A priest blesses the coffin of a woman who died from coronavirus disease at her funeral, as Italy struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus disease , in Seriate, Italy March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo

Interviews with families, doctors and nurses in Italy’s stricken Lombardy region indicate that Bertuletti’s experience is not uncommon, that scores are dying at home as symptoms go unchecked and that phone consultations are not always enough. “Doctors give people at home a treatment. But if this treatment doesn’t work, if there is no doctor who checks and changes or adjusts the medicines, then the patient dies.”

Authorities are now moving to reinforce primary care in line with recommendations by the World Health Organization, which says that delivering primary healthcare safely should be a priority for governments right after intensive care capacity. He said that although antibiotics were no cure for the virus, they could treat some of the debilitating complications and help patients recover without hospitalisation.

With her own family doctor in hospital, Bertuletti says she repeatedly phoned his replacement, who at first told her to give her father a paracetamol-based painkiller used to reduce fever. “I had to make a selection, I couldn’t visit those who had a cough and fever, I could only go to see the most serious cases.”

So sad news

In the Netherlands deaths at home are at least two times higher as people dying in IC's, source national statistic agencie. A lot of people don't want to die without family.

then it's done ?

Yeah well the predicted catastrophe is not happening so let's just invent some more shit

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Lord Jesus have mercy 😭🙏

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Same in New York apparently...

Someone was saying death toll in Italy is steadily decreasing so stock markets are high.

Much higher?😱😱

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silviaaloisi Such a tragedy.

silviaaloisi I notice the priest doesn’t wear a mask. The arrogance of the religious floors me. Does he actually believe his magic rituals will protect him from a virus?

silviaaloisi Fake pandemic. All that’s being done is manipulating the figures and refusing to talk about 5G. So much for a news broadcaster that abides by the FCC because of sanctions. What else are you covering up RT.

silviaaloisi Latest updates | cases per million population 👇 Covid_19 CoronaStopKaroNa

silviaaloisi I’m so very sorry and heartbroken for your loss. God bless you and comfort you ✝️

silviaaloisi Oh dear!! 💔😪

silviaaloisi So many disasters like red death (war) and white death (diseases) will spread all over the world at the Apocalypse. People got fed up with all these but there is no way out except asking God for the Reappearance of the Savior ThePromisedSaviour

silviaaloisi In the end, the funeral homes will know best the true number of COVID19 victims. Public agencies will miss too many.

silviaaloisi Just look at how bad it is here in Italy and we're staying isolated, especially here in Lombardia.

silviaaloisi PopeFrancis appealed to the world to have courage...Covid_19

silviaaloisi Rip dear fellow citizens

silviaaloisi I have been saying all along that the US death toll is vastly under reported. Most people who died at their homes, in ambulances and ERs are never tested.

silviaaloisi Please thank your friends the Chinese! They lied to everyone and no country could prepare because of them. COVID19 boycottlyingchina

silviaaloisi rest in peace

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yashar silviaaloisi Sure

silviaaloisi Phone conversations are of little help when one is being slowly asphyxiated.

silviaaloisi Horrific

yashar silviaaloisi Heartbreaking.

DrSenait silviaaloisi Prof, imagine what might be happening here in Ethiopiayaye!

silviaaloisi . has been allowed to remain in China, while the .nytimes .washingtonpost & WSJ were kicked out. Believe nothing from Reuters

silviaaloisi Not long before Italy leaves the EU! Just saying

I expect the same will be seen in the US. I hope the public is sufficiently horrified that this happens here.

OMG..! RT : Death at home: the unseen toll of Italy's coronavirus crisis

Hoy Domingo de Ramos, OREMOS POR LA PAZ DEL MUNDO, digamos UN SI ROTUNDO A LA PAZ Y UN NO ROTUNDO A LA GUERRA.

gotta let mother nature takes its course to thin the herd. mother nature is saving the planet for future generations

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