Italy appears to be turning the corner in its battle against the coronavirus. Here's how they did it, messy democracy and all.
MILAN—Rapper Federico Lucia’s music is filled with scathing lyrics about Italian society.
But when the novel coronavirus struck his hometown of Milan in March, he and his wife, fashion entrepreneur Chiara Ferragni, used their celebrity to solicit donations. The $5 million they collected quickly turned into a new 20-bed intensive-care unit for coronavirus patients at the city’s San Raffaele Hospital.
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