They hardly ever ventured beyond their local cafe, Patty’s Bar. Orlandi had a connection to China, his wife seemed befuddled. She didn’t test him for the virus because Italian protocols, adopted from the World Health Organization, recommended testing only people with a link to China, where the outbreak had originated. Orlandi’s symptoms puzzled Monica Avogadri, the 55-year-old anesthesiologist who treated him at Pesenti Fenaroli Hospital. Italy had not recorded a single domestic coronavirus case, but Mr. Two days later, an ambulance brought the 83-year-old back. But a Times investigation found that faulty guidance and bureaucratic delays rendered the toll far worse than it had to be.īERGAMO, Italy - When Franco Orlandi, a usually hale former truck driver, arrived in mid-February with a cough and fever at an emergency room in the northern Italian province of Bergamo, doctors determined that he had a flu and sent him home. The northern Italian province became one of the deadliest killing fields for the virus in the Western world.
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