The Regional Council of Lombardy has now formed a COVID-19 investigative commission within the regional assembly to analyse the sequence of events and the specific choices that led to so many infections and deaths in a region with an extremely high standard of health care. The mandate is political and not judicial. The commission is the first of its kind in all of Europe and, to my knowledge, the first in the world. It is an essential step to learn from mistakes and to establish accountability to the Italian people.