Das lições que a Itália
aprendeu com a COVID-19 está:
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The lessons Italy has learned about its COVID-19
outbreak could help the rest of the world
Only carefully conducted epidemiological studies
will bring to light exactly how and why COVID-19
took off in northern Italy with such speed. But in the
midst of the emergency, experts say there are already
lessons to be gleaned from Italy's fatal errors — and
urgent messages for other parts of the world.
"The biggest mistake we made was to admit
patients infected with COVID-19 into hospitals
throughout the region," said Carlo Borghetti, the vice- premier of Lombardy, an economically crucial region
with a population of 10 million.
"We should have immediately set up separate
structures exclusively for people sick with
coronavirus. I recommend the rest of the world do
this, to not send COVID patients into health-care
facilities that are still uninfected."
Already, Italian cities in other regions are doing
this, as well as field hospitals in Milan and Bergamo, Lombardy, which are almost complete.
However, the virus was not only spread to "clean" — i.e. infection-free — hospitals by admitting
positive patients. In early March, as the number of
infected was doubling every few days, authorities
allowed overwhelmed hospitals to transfer those who
tested positive but weren't gravely ill into assistedliving facilities for the elderly.
"It was like throwing a lit match onto a haystack,"
said Borghetti, who spoke out against the directive at
the time. "Some facilities refused to take in the
positive patients. For those that did [take them in], it
was devastating."
Along with the tragic misstep of putting infected
people under the same roof as clusters of the most
physically vulnerable, Borghetti and others point to a
deeper structural factor that accelerated the outbreak
in northern Italy: a highly centralized health-care
system with large hospitals as its focus.
From: shorturl.at/cMRTW. Accesses on 04/09/2020
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The lessons Italy has learned about its COVID-19 outbreak could help the rest of the world
Only carefully conducted epidemiological studies will bring to light exactly how and why COVID-19 took off in northern Italy with such speed. But in the midst of the emergency, experts say there are already lessons to be gleaned from Italy's fatal errors — and urgent messages for other parts of the world.
"The biggest mistake we made was to admit patients infected with COVID-19 into hospitals throughout the region," said Carlo Borghetti, the vice- premier of Lombardy, an economically crucial region with a population of 10 million.
"We should have immediately set up separate structures exclusively for people sick with coronavirus. I recommend the rest of the world do this, to not send COVID patients into health-care facilities that are still uninfected."
Already, Italian cities in other regions are doing this, as well as field hospitals in Milan and Bergamo, Lombardy, which are almost complete.
However, the virus was not only spread to "clean" — i.e. infection-free — hospitals by admitting positive patients. In early March, as the number of infected was doubling every few days, authorities allowed overwhelmed hospitals to transfer those who tested positive but weren't gravely ill into assistedliving facilities for the elderly.
"It was like throwing a lit match onto a haystack," said Borghetti, who spoke out against the directive at the time. "Some facilities refused to take in the positive patients. For those that did [take them in], it was devastating."
Along with the tragic misstep of putting infected people under the same roof as clusters of the most physically vulnerable, Borghetti and others point to a deeper structural factor that accelerated the outbreak in northern Italy: a highly centralized health-care system with large hospitals as its focus.
From: shorturl.at/cMRTW. Accesses on 04/09/2020
Gabarito comentado
Qual alternativa apresenta lições que a Itália aprendeu com a COVID-19?
A) Correto - Separar unidades hospitalares para tratar exclusivamente de pacientes com a COVID-19 de modo que eles não fiquem junto a pacientes não infectados.
Percebe-se a lição aprendida, o arrependimento pela seguinte fala:
"We should have immediately set up separate structures exclusively for people sick with coronavirus".
"Devíamos ter instalado imediatamente as estruturas separadas para as pessoas doentes com coronavírus".
B) Incorreto - Usar hospitais privados exclusivamente para pacientes com sintomas graves da COVID-19.
O texto não menciona hospitais privados, apenas hospitais.
C) Incorreto - Enfatizar ações de prevenções para evitar a propagação descontrolada do vírus pelo país.
Fato não mencionado no texto
D) Incorreto - Criar um sistema de saúde único para facilitar a troca de informações sobre leitos disponíveis para internação de pacientes infectados pelo corona vírus.
O texto apenas menciona que a Itália tem um sistema de saúde altamente centralizado com grandes hospitais como seu foco. (a highly centralized health-care system with large hospitals as its focus)
E) Incorreto - Transferir pacientes da COVID-19 com sintomas leves para regiões do país com menos idosos e com poucos casos da doença.
O texto menciona que as autoridades permitiram que hospitais lotados transferissem aqueles com teste positivo, mas não gravemente enfermos, para instituições de assistência para idosos (authorities allowed overwhelmed hospitals to transfer those who tested positive but weren't gravely ill into assistedliving facilities for the elderly), mas não menciona regiões do país com menos idosos e com poucos casos da doença.
Gabarito do Professor: Letra A.
