41 Italian health care workers have died from COVID-19: 'It's as if a storm hit us'

In Italy, more than 5,000 health care workers -- doctors, nurses, technicians, and paramedics -- have become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus since it first emerged in the country in February, with 41 dying. Most were infected while working in the northern regions of Italy, the areas hit hardest by the coronavirus when it first started spreading. In those early days, health care workers did not have enough protective equipment. "It's as if a storm hit us," Roberto Stellini, a doctor in Bre...