Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard

Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard

 “Florida is like an uber-Italy,” says Andrew Noymer, [UCI associate professor, public health], who wasn’t involved in this research. “Florida is going to be a tough situation, I would predict.” In a place with so many elderly people, many of them living close together in retirement homes, social distancing will be extra important to avoid disaster. “It’s not destiny to say Florida is going to be absolutely clobbered by this,” Noymer says. “There is time with social distancing to flatten the peak. Maybe we can make this the dog that didn’t bark, so to speak.”