March 8, The Nation honors Sacco researchers who isolated coronavirus with a TvBoy cover story

On the occasion of Women’s Day today, March 8, the daily newspaper La Nazione chose to dedicate the front page of its national edition to the researchers from Milan’s Sacco Hospital (Alessia Lai, Annalisa Bergna and Arianna Gabrieli) who make up the team that, at the end of February, isolated the Italian strain of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus. And it did so with a cover designed by TvBoy, a well-known Italian street artist whose murals often address current issues (and he has not failed to do so during this Covid-19 outbreak as well, proposing a reinterpretation of Hayez’s Kiss with disinfectants and masks). A special one, headlines the Florence paper, dedicated to those on the front lines against the coronavirus.

“Let us all celebrate this March 8 together,” writes La Nazione editor Agnese Pini in her editorial, “because it has never been so important and so true. Let it be, in our unpredictable and unforeseen 2020, the celebration of the women who will save us. And also of the men. Of the female scientists and researchers, nurses, surgeons and anesthesiologists, volunteers, professors and virologists. I use the universal feminine to include all the male-descended colleagues who are fighting and risking their own lives (yes, that’s what we are talking about, lives) against the coronavirus. Thank you, because you are on the front lines, because you work 12- or 14-hour shifts and sometimes you don’t even have the right equipment, and then because you are full of the courage that we lack, the good will and self-sacrifice and humility that make all the difference.” Never before, Agnese Pini then concludes, “has the mimosa been so universal.”

March 8, The Nation honors Sacco researchers who isolated coronavirus with a TvBoy cover story

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