Why the Coronavirus Was So Deadly for Italy
Lack of coordination and trust caused trouble for the country’s response to the pandemic
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4 min readJun 3, 2020
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As any aficionado of the “Italian grandmothers making pasta” video genre might infer, Italy’s population has the world’s second-highest proportion of older adults. Twenty-three percent of the country’s residents are older than 65, and 20% of…