doctor paglia has barely left the hospital since the outbreak began.l weeks of the outbreak, doctor stefano paglia did not go home. he was battling a virus that the rest of italy, and europe, had not yet woken up to. stuck inside the hospital, he exchanged whatsapp videos with his family, living their lives on the outside. stefano paglia has two homes — one with his colleagues in the hospital, the other with a wife and two teenage daughters. he has only seen them a handful of times since the outbreak began. they laugh look around the streets of italy today and it seems like cristiana the optimist might be right. lombardy is trying, tentatively, to get back to some kind of normality. shops, cafe, opening up. and after so many months of death is mourned only in private, the first low—key public funerals. at the hospital, too, things are quieter. covid patients arrive individually, no longer in waves. but perhaps the medics at you at‘s hospital number one have understood this virus in a way the world outside has not. hello, it really is more of the same a