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Editorial
. 2020 Jul;50(7):e13299.
doi: 10.1111/eci.13299. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

COVID-19, internists and resilience: the north-south Italy outbreak

Agostino Di Ciaula  1   2 , Vincenzo O Palmieri  1 , Giovanni Migliore  3 , Piero Portincasa  1 ; IMC-19 Group
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Editorial

COVID-19, internists and resilience: the north-south Italy outbreak

Agostino Di Ciaula et al. Eur J Clin Invest. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; disease management; environment; epidemiology; internal medicine.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
The upper graph shows the cumulative number of COVID‐19‐infected patients in Italy from 20 February to 20 May 2020. The lower graph shows the time progression in the absolute number of deaths. Dots and lines indicate the incidence of cases per 100 000 residents in southern and northern Italian regions
Figure 2
Figure 2
Time changes in the absolute daily number of new cases of infection in northern and southern Italy from 24 February to 20 May 2020. Data show a progressive increase before the lockdown and a plateau with a following decrease about 2 wk after
Figure 3
Figure 3
Linear regression analysis between the number of days starting from March 26 (2 wk after the day of the lockdown, 12 March 2020) and the daily number of new cases of infection in northern and southern Italy. A significant, negative correlation was present in both southern and northern Italian regions
Figure 4
Figure 4
Graphical abstract depicting the Asclepios COVID‐19 Hospital and the flow chart adopted for the management of patients at the Policlinico Hospital in Bari, Italy, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The building also housed the emergency room, radiology, and the operating theatre (ground floor) and other COVID‐19‐dedicated wards along the other floors, that is intensive respiratory therapy unit, intensive care unit and infective disease unit, with an overall capacity of 334 beds (see text for details)
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