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Italy's health system at limit in virus-struck Lombardy

by Associated Press
| March 3, 2020 12:05 AM

MILAN (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors out of retirement and accelerate graduation dates for nursing students.

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