Italian Doctor says people are underestimating Coronavirus threat because of a war in panic

A doctor on the front line of Italy’s fight against coronavirus has described the epidemic as a “disaster” and warned the public is underestimating the threat posed by the disease because of a “war on panic”.

The Independent (UK) says that in a dramatic account of conditions at his hospital in the northeastern city of Bergamo, Daniele Macchini said the outbreak was a “tsunami that has overwhelmed us”, with cases multiplying daily.

“The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night,” said the surgeon at Humanitas Gavazzeni in Lombardy, one of the country’s worst affected areas.

Independent