Rome video journalist Paolo Santalucia conducted a gripping video interview with a 33-year-old Italian lawyer and water polo player about the man’s battle with COVID-19, underscoring how the disease not only hits the elderly or those with underlying health conditions. Santalucia interviewed Andrea Napoli by Skype and filmed him waving from a hotel that is being used for patients recovering from the coronavirus. The video and a text story by Milan correspondent Colleen Barry won widespread play. https://bit.ly/39x7cLX
Young Italian man describes desperate effects of virus
Andrea Napoli, 33, takes a selfie in a hotel being used for patients recovering from coronavirus in Rome, March 29, 2020. Napoli, a lawyer in Rome, developed a cough and fever less than a week after Italy locked down the entire nation. He received a positive diagnosis for COVID-19 three days later. Napoli was told to quarantine at home, but by the next day he was hospitalized in intensive care, with X-rays confirming he had developed pneumonia.
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