Caring for Patients With Cancer During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy

作者：Filippo Pietrantonio, Marina Chiara Garassino · 发表于：JAMA Oncology · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.1426 · 被引用次数：31 · 研究领域：COVID-19 and healthcare impacts、Disaster Response and Management、Infection Control and Ventilation

Caring for Patients With Cancer During the COVID-19 Outbreak in ItalyAt the time of this writing, the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was detected in Italy only 5 weeks ago, and it has changed our lives and the lives of our families forever.After a 12-hour shift at our hospital, The National Cancer Institute of Milan, we decided to turn off the lights, put a candle near the screens of our laptops, and share our feelings with the oncology community.We had come back from Australia and Peru on the previous Saturday morning to the news that the first case had already been discovered in the city of Codogno.We were expecting the first case; we knew that it could happen; we knew it would happen; but we did not know when or where.In the beginning, there was a bit of disbelief and, although the virus was close, it still seemed very far away.It did not help that scientists and politicians were divided into alarmists and nonalarmists.Even we, people of science, could not disentangle ourselves from what was true and what was blown out of proportion.In the second phase, we felt afraid for the elderly, for the most fragile people in the community, but we never thought that the virus would touch all of us so closely.As the time passed we felt more patriotic, and at 6:00 in the evening, when the numbers of the dead were published, people took to their balconies and began singing to life and the national anthem, as they had done in China in the months before.Children hung rainbows ...