Melissa Butz was traveling by train from Florence, Italy, and the hilltowns of Tuscany back to Rome, about an hour and a half ride, with a car full of passengers wearing masks.
‘They’re suffocating to death’: Former Pinecrest Academy student working at the new frontlines of coronavirus pandemic in Italy
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