They were doing similar kinds of triage, from what I can tell: https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patients-to-hospitals-to-die-nyc-paramedic/

They were doing similar kinds of triage, from what I can tell: https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patients-to-hospitals-to-die-nyc-paramedic/ https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patient... NYC has had 12,774 deaths to date, out of 9 million people or so. Lombardy has had 13,679 deaths with a total population of around 10 million. So broadly, they're fairly similar, although Lombardy as a region is much larger than NYC.