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As Italy approaches one month under lockdown, we’ve seen Italians come together to boost morale through art, food, music – and more than a few memes. Italians are masters at improvisation and armed with technology, a resilient spirit and a keen sense of irony, they have managed to broadcast their charm and talents online to provide welcome relief d...

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Italy is the European country hardest hit by the coronavirus disease, with over 105,000 people infected and over 12,400 deaths. To help stop the spread of the virus, Lamborghini is converting departments of its super sports car production plant in Sant’Agata Bolognese in order to produce surgical masks and protective plexiglass shields. The masks w...

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Throughout the initial lockdowns of the coronavirus epidemic here in Milan it was largely business as usual for the Italian design industry. Office workers beamed into meetings from their living rooms while factory production chugged on, granted that they followed the necessary health precautions. But in a dramatic midnight announcement streamed ov...

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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report initial success in animal trials for a vaccine to neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19. During tests in mice, the vaccine was shown to produce antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, known as the novel coronavirus. University researchers said the mice responded with antibodies su...

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Last week I took part in an online conversation in which a large group of American pediatricians listened as some of our colleagues from Italy talked about pediatrics in the coronavirus crisis, because what they are dealing with there is what we will be dealing with here very soon. We Americans were hoping we could learn from our Italian colleagues...

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Andrea Bocelli is making hearts melt once again. The celebrated Italian tenor delivered a touching rendition of his signature hit Con Te Partiro as part of a special Homefest episode of The Late Show with James Corden. Broadcast on Monday evening in the US, the programme invited nearly a dozen artists to perform a song from the comfort of their own...

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During this unprecedented health care crisis, law enforcement officer members of the Italian American Police Society of New Jersey are on the front lines of danger on the street, behind bars, guarding transportation systems and in many other locations. The amazing heroes in this battle are the men and women working as nurses, doctors and medical pe...

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Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV), a ferry operator that is part of MSC Group, has converted the ferry ship Splendid into a floating hospital equipped for patients with and recovering from COVID-19. Stationed in the ferry terminal in Genoa, Italy, it has 25 beds in single cabins, although it is possible to equip up to 400 beds. The floating hospital also fe...

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A group of Italian biotech companies has recently entered the world race to contain and finally defeat the coronavirus, and are getting results. While the chronicles are full of Japanese miracle drugs and vaccine trials in the four corners of the world, Italian biotech is getting international recognition and is close to important trials. “Perhaps...

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At Cotugno Hospital, a specialist infectious diseases facility that now only treats COVID-19 patients, armed guards patrol the corridors. As we walked inside we passed disinfection machines that look like airport scanners, but they clean you down. While the speed of the virus storm caught everyone by surprise in the north, and medical teams were ov...

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