In December 2019, a novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 emerged in Wuhan, China, responsible for an aggressive interstitial pneumonia. 1 In few weeks, this condition becomes a matter of global health and the coronavirus disease (named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization) was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. 2 At the time of writing, April 22, 2020, the pandemic in Italy has reached 187 327 total cases of contagion and 25 085 deaths.
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