Regional COVID-19 Network for Coordination of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Veneto, Italy

IN DECEMBER 2019 a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (coronavirus-2019 [COVID-19]) was reported in Wuhan, China, and it rapidly spread across the world.1 On February 21, a 78-year-old man became the first person in Europe to die as a result of COVID-19 in a community hospital in Veneto, a region of about 5,000,000 people located in northeast Italy. Since then, SARS-CoV-2 has become a relentless epidemic in Italy, with a dramatic increase in the number of patients showing COVID-19 –related acute respiratory failure and hypoxemia.
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Special Article Source Type: research