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July 25, 2020

Italy featured in the New York Times for the management of the new coronavirus pandemic, with an article that highlights the results obtained by our country and with the emblematic title: 'Why can't Trump's America be like Italy? '.

"After a terrible start - writes the newspaper - Italy moved quickly to do what was necessary to face the coronavirus. It established a very severe lockdown and maintained it. The government helped support workers and activities during the lockdown. The rescue network had holes, but the perpetrators tried to make it work. In an extreme case of 'non-Trumpism' the prime minister even apologized for the delay in aid. "

And so, "Italy broke the curve: it maintained the lockdown until there were relatively few cases and it was prudent to reopen". America, NYT said, "could have followed the same path" but "the Trump administration has pushed for a rapid reopening ignoring the warnings of epidemiologists." In these days, the article concludes, "Americans can only envy Italy's success in fighting the coronavirus (...). Italy is often referred to as the 'patient in Europe? What are we?" .

After reopening 91 thousand deaths (+ 68%)
Since the United States "reopened" on April 24, 91 thousand people have been infected with Covid-19 in 92 days, with an average of almost a thousand deaths per day, ie 989, compared to 692 of media recorded before the reopening. The increase is 68 percent. Cnn reports it. In the 78 days from the first ascertained case, on February 6, to the end of the "isolation", in late April, 54,000 had died.

The first to get out of isolation was Georgia, one of the least affected, which reopened hairdressers, gyms and bowling alleys. Now the southern state has become the seventh in the number of infections, with 161 thousand cases and almost 3,500 deaths. California, meanwhile, has overtaken New York, becoming the worst hit state in America with 440,000 infected, followed by Florida with 414,000 cases.

New York, which had been the country's outbreak until May, is third, also outperformed by Florida. In total, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, 4 million 128 thousand cases and 145,700 deaths have so far been recorded in the United States.