Trend of pneumonia diagnosis in emergency departments as a COVID-19 surveillance system: a time series study

Objective In Italy, the first diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed on 20 February 2020 in the Lombardy region. Given the rapid spread of the infection in the population, it was suggested that in Europe, and specifically in Italy, the virus had already been present in the last months of 2019. In this...

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Published in:BMJ Open
Main Authors: Antonio Giampiero Russo, Rossella Murtas, Adriano Decarli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e044388.full