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cord-265785-mcru4j6g	Indolfi, Ciro	The Outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy: Fighting the Pandemic	2020-04-01		.txt	text/plain	740	52	67	The Outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy has caused a never-seen-before disaster in terms of hospitalizations and deaths. Italy was the first European nation to be affected by COVID-19 with 143,626 confirmed total cases and 18,279 deaths to date (1) . Italy was not prepared for COVID-19, currently a planetary health emergency with 1, 436, 198 cases and 85,522 deaths worldwide (2) . On February 21, 2019, the first Italian patient with COVID-19 was diagnosed, a 38-year-old man hospitalized at Codogno Hospital, Lodi, in northern Italy. Also, in northern Italy, on February 21, 2020, another outbreak of viruses was discovered in Vò Euganeo (Padua) and, in the Veneto region, the first death was reported, a 78-year-old man in a hospital in Padua. Social containment, early and rapid throughout a nation, is the most effective measure for controlling the spread of COVID-19; this social containment perhaps was delayed in Italy ( Figure 3) .	./cache/cord-265785-mcru4j6g.txt	./txt/cord-265785-mcru4j6g.txt