When the COVID-19 emergency struck Italy, Lombardy was one of the hardest hit regions.
All inpatient admissions in the area for non-COVID patients were stopped in a bid to prevent the contagion from spreading.
But this caused a potentially dangerous dilemma for the region’s Foundation IRCCS Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, which hosts around 6,000 inpatient and 44,000 outpatient visits each...