'The world is asking, 'Why Italy?' We are asking the same.' JamesAALongman reports from Rome:
6 min readEarly cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.
In the small towns of Italy's north, where your neighbors are family and your family are neighbors, the virus spread quickly among an elderly population that still often lives with younger family members, rather than in the nursing homes more popular in other parts of Europe or in the U.S.So maybe it's a situation where a more mobile group is able to spread the virus to a less mobile group that's less able to survive it.
A worker sprays disinfectant to sanitize against coronavirus in a museum in Naples, Italy, March 10, 2020.
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