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This article was published on 27 February 2020. So it was published before the irrational response to  the coronavirus by the US government, which raised the travel risk level to Italy to level 3 late on 28 February 2020, then to level 4 for the Veneto and Lombardy regions on 29 February.

The article can be read by clicking on the link below:

How Italy succumbed to coronavirus

The article was translated into Italian and published here:

In che modo l’Italia ha ceduto al Coronavirus

I also discussed the risk-averse response of the Italian government to the coronavirus problem on Sky News in the interview in the link below on 24 February 2020:

Italy becomes centre of European COVID-19 outbreak

As my previous blog post argued, the responses of the Italian and US governments are completely out of proportion to the actual problem and will make it worse:

THE #CORONAVIRUS OR #COVID19 OUTBREAK IN #ITALY HAS BEEN MET BY A RISK-AVERSE, FEARFUL PANIC. INSTEAD OF BANNING DIRECT FLIGHTS, CLOSING SCHOOLS IN NON-AFFECTED AREAS, A RATIONAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSE IS NEEDED. MY COMMENTS ON @SKYNEWS DAILY PODCAST