Patient Zero

The first-person story of the first journalist in Spain to be infected with coronavirus.

On February 19, 2020, Atalanta faced off against Valencia in the playoffs of the Champions League. This is the night experts and authorities have pointed to as a biological bomb in the circulation of covid-19 in Italy and Spain. An unwitting participant in that circulation was the sports journalist Kike Mateu, who became known as the first person in Valencia infected with coronavirus on his return: patient zero. In this book, he describes what he lived through from the moment of his infection, how the healthcare workers became his second family, and his gratitude for the shows of support he received.