The epicenter of the current epidemic in Italy, the Lombardy region, is fighting a hard battle against an invisible enemy, the propagation of SARS-CoV-2. At the time of writing (March 17, 2020)1 the region registers more than half (51%) of the total national confirmed cases (31.506) with a fatality rate at almost 8%. Of special concern, in general, and for me personally, is the situation in the province of Bergamo, with almost 4000 cases (3993) and many fatalities (460, almost 12%), where two small towns not far from where I was born and raised are paying a brutal toll. Of little comfort is the knowledge that the majority of infected people (up to 80%) are likely asymptomatic and go by undetected, as revealed by a study conducted in the small village of Vo’ Euganeo (not far from Padua), where all 3000 residents were tested after lockdown.2 These results mirror those recently published by Li and co-workers.3