As early as March 21, a group of physicians in northern Italy warned in a New England Journal of Medicine article: We are learning that hospitals might be the main Covid-19 carriers, as they are rapidly populated by infected patients, facilitating transmission to uninfected patients. Patients are transported by our regional system, which also contributes to spreading the disease as its ambulances and personnel rapidly become vectors… [Sars-Cov-2] is not particularly lethal, but it is very contagious. The more medicalized and centralized the society, the more widespread the virus.
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