The Unnecessary Controversy Over Mortality During the First or Second Wave Of COVID-19 Infection in Italy |Biomedgrid

COVID-19 pandemic induced dramatic modification of interpersonal relationship and health habit. Both the first and the second wave of the pandemic have been associated with a high morbidity and mortality leading to a serious crisis in the health system in all Countries. Italy, especially the Northern Regions, was one of the first Western Countries to be devastated by this “health hurricane” and most of the subsequent decisions taken in terms of health policy have caused such upheavals in public opinion that they could not even be imaginable before the advent of COVID-19 pandemic. As a consequence, ordinary people have gone from viewing doctors fighting the COVID-19 pandemic as heroes during the first wave to as part of the system preventing freedom of movement by enforcing quarantine measures during the second wave.