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Annalisa Malara marked an anniversary with a difference over the weekend. One year ago, the young doctor was working at Codogno hospital when she asked to see a patient gasping for air. This encounter would save the manâs life, put the world on high alert and radically alter Malaraâs career.
âThat day is impressed in my memory,â she says. âI could never forget it.â
The patient, Mattia Maestri, was an athletic 38-year-old who had come to the emergency department on February 18 with fever, cough, and shortness of breath. He was given antibiotics but did not stay. He came back that night in worse shape and was admitted. Nobody knew what was wrong.