Doctor in coronavirus-stricken Italy details what's happening in his hospital: 'Every ventilator becomes like gold'

'We just try to make ourselves useful,' Dr. Daniele Macchini wrote.

"Every ventilator becomes like gold: those in operating theaters that have now suspended their non-urgent activity become intensive care places that did not exist before," the doctor explained.

Macchini noted that some physicians have become infected and also have relatives who have contracted the coronavirus. He warned readers to avoid public gathering places, such as gyms, theaters and museums, and pointed out that the virus is particularly risky when contracted by the elderly. Italy is facing the worst outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, outside of China, where the virus was first discovered. The European nation has over 9,000 confirmed cases, and more than 460 people have died in the country as of Tuesday morning.

Medical personnel work in a pre-triage medical tent in front of a hospital in Cremona, Northern Italy, on March 4.These restrictions were already in place in Italy's northern region, the epicenter of the country's coronavirus outbreak. But Monday's decision expanded the measures from impacting about 16 million people, to the entire nation of some 60 million.

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