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It’s been only a few days since the world learned about the life-saving effort by a young team of engineers to design and 3D print venturi valves in order to save COVID-19 patients’ lives at an Italian Hospital. As further recognition to the potential for 3D printing to deliver fast solutions in emergency situations, the Isinnova team now developed...

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"Abbiamo ottime notizie sui ventilatori per le terapie intensive: abbiamo scoperto come collegare un respiratore a più circuiti". Lo annuncia Sergio Venturi, commissario ad Acta per l'emergenza coronavirus in Emilia-Romagna. "L'intuizione – spiega Venturi – si deve al professor Ranieri, direttore del reparto di Rianimazione e Anestesia a Bologna ch...

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The language of music is common to all generations and nations,” Gioachino Rossini, the virtuosic opera composer, once said. “It is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.” In recent weeks, Italians have embraced the language of music as a means to communicate with their neighbors and endure the ravages of covid-19 as a coll...

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The first coronavirus patient in the Italian province of Modena to recover from the deadly disease is nearly a century old. The virus ripping through countries around the world is proving particularly lethal for elderly people. But some good news emerged from the grim fight against Covid-19 in the country today, as a 95-year-old reportedly makes a...

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Italy may have been put in virtual lockdown—but it seems that doesn’t apply to everyone. Pope Francis has urged Catholic priests in Italy to “have the courage to go out and go to the sick... accompanying health workers and volunteers, in this work they are doing,” as the novel coronavirus grips the country. On Monday, Italy extended its emergency c...

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The spread of coronavirus across the U.S. has taken a particularly hard toll on one New Jersey family. According to the New York Times and NJ Advance Media, a New Jersey mother and two of her children died within days of each other after becoming infected with COVID-19. Grace Fusco, 73, died Wednesday night just hours after her son, Carmine Fusco,...

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Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler are in talks with Italy’s biggest ventilator manufacturer to help to boost production of the life-saving machines that are urgently needed in the coronavirus crisis, company officials said on Thursday. Italy is at the epicenter of the pandemic and its government has embarked on a big expansion of the number of intensive ca...

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San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Marco Belinelli is helping out his native country of Italy during the coronavirus pandemic. Per Jeff McDonald of The San Antonio Express-News, Belinelli is offering financial assistance to hospitals in his native Bologna, Italy to aid in the battle against the global coronavirus crisis. Belinelli isn’t able to go ho...

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Vò, near Venice, was one of the 11 towns and villages at the centre of the country's COVID-19 outbreak and began the trial at the start of the pandemic in Europe. The experiment involved blanket testing of the town's entire population of 3,300 people and the imposition of very strict quarantine on those infected and their contacts. Italian news rep...

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One of Italy’s most endearing attributes may be the reason it was hit so hard by the coronavirus. The European country has the second-most cases in the world at 27,980 — second only to China — and almost 2,000 deaths so far. Now researchers are learning why. Italy’s social and multigenerational way of life, in which the young and old live and spend...

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