id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-333640-oh9ucair Gambaro, Giovanni Nothing will ever be as before. Reflections on the COVID-19 epidemics by nephrologists in eleven countries 2020-05-25 .txt text/plain 2797 148 65 In such a context, a few days can make a big difference, as our colleague in Paris reports: our hospital was up against COVID-19 at the beginning of March. As one colleague wrote: unfortunately, my hospital and nephrology clinic were not prepared to deal with the COVID epidemic, especially considering the WHO guidelines issued as early as February 2020. Very soon patient's triage started, the "red zone" was equipped with PPE's, and presently doctors and nurses, recruited for work in the COVID centre get special training. Emanuela Cataldo a young nephrologist working in a COVID Unit in Bari, talks about loneliness in a surreal scenario: this pandemic took two fundamental things away from me: freedom and close contact with people. There is no better definition of fear, than in these words from Emanuela: working with COVID patients makes you feel their desperate condition. ./cache/cord-333640-oh9ucair.txt ./txt/cord-333640-oh9ucair.txt