03. Sfortuna

An episode of the The Politics of Pandemics podcast, hosted by DG, titled "03. Sfortuna" was published on October 21, 2021 and runs 24 minutes.

October 21, 2021 ·24m · The Politics of Pandemics

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Northern Italy was one of the first regions to be truly hit by the horrors of COVID-19, with a shockingly high mortality rate and cemeteries filling faster than they can dig them. We look at the perfect storm of factors that caused this nightmare and killed a generation of Milanese elderly. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pCZAy1BkQQQhPJ5PcwyBRtd4Vky7cBMLe62JyGWMgBA/edit?usp=sharing

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Northern Italy was one of the first regions to be truly hit by the horrors of COVID-19, with a shockingly high mortality rate and cemeteries filling faster than they can dig them. We look at the perfect storm of factors that caused this nightmare and killed a generation of Milanese elderly.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pCZAy1BkQQQhPJ5PcwyBRtd4Vky7cBMLe62JyGWMgBA/edit?usp=sharing

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