Italian doctor says coronavirus like a bomb that exploded

and we'll carry on with this story our chase team has found a great guest he coordinates the intensive care response at the epicenter of the outbreak his name is dr. Jack Amogh Rosselli and he is in Milan Italy dr. grace le, you are on the front line of the

coronavirus

outbreak in northern italy, please describe the situation to me, the excitement it is causing as well, yes the situation is very bad here i would say to give you an idea of ​​the overwhelming number of patients that they are attending I can tell you that we had about 800 intensive care unit beds before the crisis.

We are currently being treated in the ICU for almost 600 patients plus another 100 who have been discharged or died, so we have been treating we have treated a total of more than 700 patients in less than three weeks, so it's a huge effort, we've opened new beds, of course, we've increased our ICU bed capacity by about 50%, we've completely reorganized the hospital network, we've created a network of dedicated Kove in nineteen I see use where we pool and isolate those patients and the

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s are working

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s and nurses of course working seven days a week. Let me ask you this, dr. casselli it's too little too late your country was right behind the 8 ball here i do it can you repeat please i'm sorry it's too little too late your country didn't do enough from the beginning think well i don't know what to think this situation is like a

bomb

going off and you're just overwhelmed by an insane amount of patients maybe maybe we shouldn't enforce containment measures even more so the message I want to give to everyone to every country hopefully we can't but the possibility of facing this is that the most important thing is to teach people how to behave in these circumstances, because if you don't stop the spread of the disease, your healthcare system doesn't matter how good, how efficient, how modern it is. sooner or later it will collapse because the number of patients is too high for the resources we have around the world, so the most important thing is how people need to behave to stop the spread of the disease from a medical perspective: lockdown. the country 60 million people there in Italy is that the way to do what you say, I think so and would even enforce the measures, for example, now let's say that bars and restaurants are still open until six in the evening. but they could be closed completely and people should work from home or even state let's say home and not go out avoid any crowded place on point the terrible thing about disease is you actually have to limit freedom personal and you have to limit you know the interaction between human beings but this is too important otherwise this is going to be a disaster disaster for Lombard a disaster for literally a justice for Europe and potentially the whole world so we are living this now and my now my mission is not just to take care of Italian patients but also to tell other people in the world how to prepare for this because it's actually like a tsunami okay you know I mean if you had to tell the other european countries this is how you prepare what would be the two main things on that list well first of all you have to teach your healthcare professionals how to use and how to correctly use personal protective equipment because as you know there is a some risk. of infection among health workers and that is another big problem.

Teach the population to have the population ready because no one is ready to be locked up so they have to know if this is coming and when they understand it is coming before the

bomb

s. the bomb goes off in a small part of the country the whole country hysteria and the third thing is to try to think of an ICU organ organization as creating a vice network where you can put those patients where you can isolate those patients and be ready to improve their ICU capacity, so I hope that not everyone believes what we are experiencing here now, even in Italy, I mean, there are several regions that have a certain number of patients, but nothing comparable to our region.

I really don't know why we probably have a very high population density and you know people come and go where you learn a lot yeah that's probably one explanation but it's very very bad what we're experiencing here right now I have an last question for you when you go out on the streets dr. casselli or you meet patients where you are do you think people are taking this seriously enough now if you asked me this question two three four days ago I would have said no since yesterday we had a message on television from the President of the Republic like A few days ago, we received a couple of messages from the head of government and, since yesterday, I think that people are realizing that something very dangerous is going to happen and that how this will happen will depend to a large extent on what people do. because you can't stop this by increasing the number of ICU beds or buying new ventilators this is important to take care of people who are already sick but the only way to survive is to prevent other people from seeing well too i want to thank you for your time doctor and will you i wish the best with what you are doing there in milan thank you that is dr.

Josh Gross Ally is coordinating the intensive care response at the epicenter of the outbreak and is located in Milan, Italy.