The impact of health worker gap in Italy on the COVID-19 pandemic. A good time to improve the quality of the Italian National Health System (NHS)?

• Luca La Colla,
• Maria Cristina Polidori,
• Giosia Di Saverio,
• Giuseppe Preziosi,
• Luisa Mantovani,
• Federico Caobelli

Affiliations

Luca La Colla

Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

Maria Cristina Polidori

Aging Clinical Research, Dpt. II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; CECAD Cluster of Excellence on Aging Research, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Giosia Di Saverio

Department of Surgery, ASL Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Giuseppe Preziosi

Department of General Surgery, Conquest Hospital, Hastings, UK

Luisa Mantovani

Cancer Center, Klinikum St. Georg GmbH, Leipzig, Germany

Federico Caobelli

Corresponding author at: Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Basel Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland.; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland