‘We’re Not Counting Bodies Anymore,’ Says Nurse in Italy

Italy's COVID-19 Death Count Jumps to 3,405

Medical personnel at work in the intensive care unit of the hospital of Brescia, Italy, on March 19, 2020. Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP

A nurse working on the frontline of Italy’s COVID-19 outbreak warned that exhausted healthcare workers can’t keep up as the death toll mounts.

“We’re working in a state of very high stress and tension,” said Daniela Confalonieri, a nurse in a hospital in Milan, near the contagion epicenter Lombardy, on Thursday.