THREAD: A 38-year-old marathoner in the northern Italian town of Codogno was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Feb. 20. It was the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. #PandemicAtlashttp://apne.ws/w5H8cHT
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Italy became the first country to order a nationwide lockdown on March 9. From one day to the next, street life disappeared. An eerie silence replaced the usual bustle of cities like Rome and Milan.
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The lockdown worked. As Italians were cooped up at home for 10 weeks, the infection rate fell. By the summer, most restrictions were lifted, and life slowly started to return to normal.
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Italy won international praise for taming the virus. But despite plans and protocols, it couldn’t stop a second surge in the fall. Another 25,000 people died, and hospitals once again were brought to the breaking point.
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The coronavirus emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, and swept across the world. It brought joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death to all corners of the globe. But each nation has its own story of how it coped. Read
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And yet everyone continued to fail to respond to the crisis appropriately, even with this gruesome warning.
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