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Town of Vo study reveals more than 40% asymptomatic

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Hippocratic Post

A study of COVID-19 in the quarantined Italian town of Vò, where most of the population was tested, reveals the importance of asymptomatic cases. The authors of the new research, from the University of Padova and at Imperial College London, published today in Nature, suggest asymptomatic or pre -symptomatic people are an important factor in […]

A Sabbatical in Italy

Posted on March 26, 2016 (November 19, 2025) by Dr Simon Read

Rigoletto was the catalyst. It had been 12 years since I last lived in Italy and sitting in Covent Garden listening to this opera, I suddenly really wanted to go back. I closed my eyes and was back among the Umbrian hills with my wife, singing opera in our Mini while driving to Assisi. The […]