“…They were suffering from infectious diseases other than COVID19 such as bacterial infections of the heart, bone, skin and soft tissues, the sensory organs, and the central nervous system. In order to treat patients with mild and severe infections in an emergency context of unavailability of hospital beds, our outpatient infectious disease center imported a health care model already applied in countries such as the UK, the USA, Belgium, Portugal, Netherlands, and Switzerland known as OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy) [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] . There exist three main models of OPAT according to whether antibiotic therapy is administered directly at the patient’s home (either by the patient himself or by a caregiver), at a dedicated infusion center, or in nursing facilities [7] .…”