Influenza and Covid the symptoms are similar: cough, fever and pain. How to unmask the virus

Iacopo Periti, family doctor and member of the directive committee of the Fimmg of Florence, is in his surgery in Empoli just before 1 pm. The landline phone rings continuously, calls arrive by his assistants. “I have 1,620” he says as he scrolls through the latest data on the national and Tuscan flu: “Yesterday morning from 8 to 10 at least fifteen people called me for flu symptoms”.

Doctor,