By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Pope Francis’s new personal physician said last November that COVID-19 is “a normal illness.”... Italian media reported last year that Professor Roberto Bernabei, 69, the head of Geriatrics at the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, had discussed the virus in a grave but reasoned tone... “If this disease mows down the elderly, it is a very serious thing, of course,” Bernabei said. “However, it is, how should I put it? A normal disease.”