dr frank rasulo works in one of italy's leading hospitals, in a city called brescia. we had almost 600—650 covid positive patients. last week it was reported brescia had more new infections and more deaths in a single day than anywhere else in the world. we have patients obviously on ventilators and all the patients here are on mechanical ventilation — they are intubated. what's it like as a doctor dealing with patients of this number and in this constantly moving and difficult situation? it is — i can speak for my colleagues also — absolutely overwhelming. dr rasulo says britain needs to learn lessons from italy's experience. what you have in your favour is that you've been warned, and if there is definitely one possible factor that being warned of what can actually develop and what can actually happen i'm sure that the things can be contained. i think the uk is still a few weeks behind where italy is now. we would all be guessing how many weeks, but i think everybody must be under no illusion — this will spread throughout the uk. this virus is so infectious for such