What kills people about the virus? Is it respiratory failure? And usually, it’s old people or kids that are susceptible to dying from these types of viruses, but it seems to be happening to anybody regardless. So why do some people survive and others die?
What kills people about the virus? Is it respiratory failure? And usually, it’s old people or kids that are susceptible to dying from these types of viruses, but it seems to be happening to anybody regardless. So why do some people survive and others die?
As the virus starts to destroy the lungs, “people become unable to breathe properly,” Yang said.
Even worse, the body’s efforts to fight the virus can cause inflammation in the lungs — making breathing even more difficult.
Blood vessels damaged in the war between the virus and immune system may begin leaking fluid into lung tissues, which can be visible as white spots on chest X-rays.
The fluid may drown some of the lung’s tiny air sacs, preventing them from delivering oxygen to the blood and removing carbon dioxide
As the virus starts to destroy the lungs, “people become unable to breathe properly,” Yang said.
Even worse, the body’s efforts to fight the virus can cause inflammation in the lungs — making breathing even more difficult.
Blood vessels damaged in the war between the virus and immune system may begin leaking fluid into lung tissues, which can be visible as white spots on chest X-rays.
The fluid may drown some of the lung’s tiny air sacs, preventing them from delivering oxygen to the blood and removing carbon dioxide
Vice President Mike Pence chalked things up to a "miscommunication" when asked about how the Center for Disease Control (CDC) mistakenly identified the first U.S. patient to die of the coronavirus.
These Italians are out of control. It's like they're actively trying to spread it to African and afro-latino countries. Like foh. Niggas would start going missing fucking with me if I was prime minister or president of a country. Try bringing that bullshit in. That's a on sight ting. You're done.
When the coronavirus outbreak began in China, a wave of mistrust toward Chinese people swept through Italy. Now, as Italy combats its own outbreak, some Italians are taken aback that they are being treated as a risk.
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Italians Are Being Treated as a Risk Abroad Over Coronavirus
Countries have already banned travelers from Italy or imposed other restrictions
By
Margherita Stancati
Medical staff check passengers from Italy for symptoms of coronavirus in the Albanian port city of Durres. Several countries have already banned travelers from Italy.
ROME—When the coronavirus outbreak began in China, a wave of fear and mistrust toward Chinese people swept through Italy. Chinese restaurants couldn’t fill tables, while some Chinese tourists faced abuse on the streets. Italy, alone in Europe so far, banned all direct flights from China.
Italians abroad are being treated as a risk, and several countries have already banned travelers from Italy. Others—including China—have imposed a two-week quarantine on people who have recently been to the peninsula.
Among those affected by the new restrictions is 53-year-old Gabriele Battaglia, who was on his way from Milan to Beijing when the Chinese rules changed earlier this week. He now finds himself quarantined in China.
An Italian army soldier blocks off a road leading to the village of Vo'Euganeo, in Italy's northern Veneto region. Ten towns in Lombardy are also quarantined.
Photo: Claudio Furlan/Associated Press
“Now everybody is shocked,” said Mr. Battaglia, who works for Swiss television and has been living in Beijing for nine years. “But I see the logic in what the Chinese are doing: They are isolating people who come from hot spots, like they have done for Hubei,” the Chinese province at the center of the outbreak, which has been cordoned off from the rest of China.
“For them, Italy is a bit like Hubei,” added Mr. Battaglia, who must report his temperature twice daily to local authorities.
In Italy so far 821 people have tested positive for the coronavirus, of whom 21 have died—more than any other country after China and South Korea. Since Italy’s outbreak erupted on Feb. 20, Italian authorities have restricted public gatherings and shut down schools in the country’s north. The towns in the region of Lombardy where the clusters of infections began have been sealed off, with armed forces blocking the roads in and out.
That hasn’t stopped new cases with links to northern Italy from appearing as far south as Sicily, across the Alpine border in Switzerland and in Spain’s Canary Islands, where Italian tourists were vacationing.
Health personnel check the temperature of a guest in La Caleta, on the Canary Island of Tenerife, a favorite vacation spot for Italians.
Photo: Joan Mateu/Associated Press
Despite the widening epidemic, Italy has pushed back against suggestions that other European Union nations could shut their borders to Italians over fears of contagion.
“The idea that Italian citizens could be banned from entering another country is unthinkable in Heaven or on Earth, and among the 27 member countries this is clear,” Vincenzo Amendola, Italy’s minister for European affairs, said earlier this week after meeting with EU ambassadors in Rome.
So far, Romania has introduced restrictions, imposing a two-week quarantine on anyone traveling from Lombardy and neighboring Veneto. Hungary has also announced vehicle checks on its land borders, saying it would quarantine people who may have been exposed to the virus, without specifying Italy.
Outside the EU, a growing number of countries have closed their borders to Italians.
Among them are Mauritius and the Seychelles, beach-holiday destinations popular with Italians, as well as Saudi Arabia and Israel, which on Thursday forced an Alitalia plane to return to Rome shortly after landing. Only Israeli passengers were allowed to disembark.
“Let’s hope that at the very least we can get our money back,” one of the passengers told Italian camera crews after landing in Rome.
New Coronavirus Cases Surge Outside China
As new pockets of infection have emerged outside China, Italy, South Korea and Iran are scrambling to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: Zuma Press
Meanwhile, many other Europeans are avoiding Italy, with the numbers of travelers dropping so deeply that airlines have canceled flights, while trains in Italy are nearly empty. Some soccer games and other sports events involving Italian teams are being held behind closed doors or postponed.
Some Italians abroad are feeling no longer welcome.
“I feel utterly humiliated,” Cristiano Giuriato, an Italian waiter in Madrid, said in a Facebook post after a regular customer of the bar where he works brought him a face mask and made him wear it. “I have been stripped of my dignity and bullied for no reason, just because I am Italian.”
In the weeks after the Chinese outbreak began, similar acts of discrimination were directed against Asians and people of Asian descent. In one widely viewed video, an Italian man told Chinese tourists in Florence “to go cough in your homes.” A cafe near Rome’s Trevi Fountain banned Chinese customers, a measure that sparked widespread outrage.
Israel on Thursday forced an Alitalia plane to return to Rome shortly after landing. Only Israeli passengers were allowed to disembark.
Photo: jack guez/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Tensions are even rising between Italy’s regions. The overwhelming majority of sickened people are from Italy’s wealthier north. Now, southern Italians are telling northerners to keep away.
“They are here on holiday while they should be at home in quarantine,” a resident of Ischia, an island off the coast of Naples, said as she filmed northern Italian tourists disembarking at the port. “You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
There are currently no travel restrictions within Italy, except for the quarantined towns, 10 of which are in Lombardy and one in Veneto. And there are no medical checks on people traveling from the affected regions to other parts of Italy, but that may change.
“How is it possible that people are arriving from Lombardy and Veneto and no one at the airport checks on them,” Nello Musumeci, Sicily’s governor, said after several cases of coronavirus traceable to the Lombardy outbreak were confirmed on the island earlier this week. “It would be better if no tourists came from the north.”
When the coronavirus outbreak began in China, a wave of mistrust toward Chinese people swept through Italy. Now, as Italy combats its own outbreak, some Italians are taken aback that they are being treated as a risk.
www.wsj.com
Italians Are Being Treated as a Risk Abroad Over Coronavirus
Countries have already banned travelers from Italy or imposed other restrictions
By
Margherita Stancati
Medical staff check passengers from Italy for symptoms of coronavirus in the Albanian port city of Durres. Several countries have already banned travelers from Italy.
ROME—When the coronavirus outbreak began in China, a wave of fear and mistrust toward Chinese people swept through Italy. Chinese restaurants couldn’t fill tables, while some Chinese tourists faced abuse on the streets. Italy, alone in Europe so far, banned all direct flights from China.
Italians abroad are being treated as a risk, and several countries have already banned travelers from Italy. Others—including China—have imposed a two-week quarantine on people who have recently been to the peninsula.
Among those affected by the new restrictions is 53-year-old Gabriele Battaglia, who was on his way from Milan to Beijing when the Chinese rules changed earlier this week. He now finds himself quarantined in China.
An Italian army soldier blocks off a road leading to the village of Vo'Euganeo, in Italy's northern Veneto region. Ten towns in Lombardy are also quarantined.
Photo: Claudio Furlan/Associated Press
“Now everybody is shocked,” said Mr. Battaglia, who works for Swiss television and has been living in Beijing for nine years. “But I see the logic in what the Chinese are doing: They are isolating people who come from hot spots, like they have done for Hubei,” the Chinese province at the center of the outbreak, which has been cordoned off from the rest of China.
“For them, Italy is a bit like Hubei,” added Mr. Battaglia, who must report his temperature twice daily to local authorities.
In Italy so far 821 people have tested positive for the coronavirus, of whom 21 have died—more than any other country after China and South Korea. Since Italy’s outbreak erupted on Feb. 20, Italian authorities have restricted public gatherings and shut down schools in the country’s north. The towns in the region of Lombardy where the clusters of infections began have been sealed off, with armed forces blocking the roads in and out.
That hasn’t stopped new cases with links to northern Italy from appearing as far south as Sicily, across the Alpine border in Switzerland and in Spain’s Canary Islands, where Italian tourists were vacationing.
Health personnel check the temperature of a guest in La Caleta, on the Canary Island of Tenerife, a favorite vacation spot for Italians.
Photo: Joan Mateu/Associated Press
Despite the widening epidemic, Italy has pushed back against suggestions that other European Union nations could shut their borders to Italians over fears of contagion.
“The idea that Italian citizens could be banned from entering another country is unthinkable in Heaven or on Earth, and among the 27 member countries this is clear,” Vincenzo Amendola, Italy’s minister for European affairs, said earlier this week after meeting with EU ambassadors in Rome.
So far, Romania has introduced restrictions, imposing a two-week quarantine on anyone traveling from Lombardy and neighboring Veneto. Hungary has also announced vehicle checks on its land borders, saying it would quarantine people who may have been exposed to the virus, without specifying Italy.
Outside the EU, a growing number of countries have closed their borders to Italians.
Among them are Mauritius and the Seychelles, beach-holiday destinations popular with Italians, as well as Saudi Arabia and Israel, which on Thursday forced an Alitalia plane to return to Rome shortly after landing. Only Israeli passengers were allowed to disembark.
“Let’s hope that at the very least we can get our money back,” one of the passengers told Italian camera crews after landing in Rome.
New Coronavirus Cases Surge Outside China
As new pockets of infection have emerged outside China, Italy, South Korea and Iran are scrambling to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: Zuma Press
Meanwhile, many other Europeans are avoiding Italy, with the numbers of travelers dropping so deeply that airlines have canceled flights, while trains in Italy are nearly empty. Some soccer games and other sports events involving Italian teams are being held behind closed doors or postponed.
Some Italians abroad are feeling no longer welcome.
“I feel utterly humiliated,” Cristiano Giuriato, an Italian waiter in Madrid, said in a Facebook post after a regular customer of the bar where he works brought him a face mask and made him wear it. “I have been stripped of my dignity and bullied for no reason, just because I am Italian.”
In the weeks after the Chinese outbreak began, similar acts of discrimination were directed against Asians and people of Asian descent. In one widely viewed video, an Italian man told Chinese tourists in Florence “to go cough in your homes.” A cafe near Rome’s Trevi Fountain banned Chinese customers, a measure that sparked widespread outrage.
Israel on Thursday forced an Alitalia plane to return to Rome shortly after landing. Only Israeli passengers were allowed to disembark.
Photo: jack guez/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Tensions are even rising between Italy’s regions. The overwhelming majority of sickened people are from Italy’s wealthier north. Now, southern Italians are telling northerners to keep away.
“They are here on holiday while they should be at home in quarantine,” a resident of Ischia, an island off the coast of Naples, said as she filmed northern Italian tourists disembarking at the port. “You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
There are currently no travel restrictions within Italy, except for the quarantined towns, 10 of which are in Lombardy and one in Veneto. And there are no medical checks on people traveling from the affected regions to other parts of Italy, but that may change.
“How is it possible that people are arriving from Lombardy and Veneto and no one at the airport checks on them,” Nello Musumeci, Sicily’s governor, said after several cases of coronavirus traceable to the Lombardy outbreak were confirmed on the island earlier this week. “It would be better if no tourists came from the north.”
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