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01-03-2021 | COVID-19 | Letter to the editor

How neurosurgical departments in Lombardy are getting ready to face the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: update from the most hit region in Italy

Authors: Davide Boeris, Davide Colistra, Jacopo Falco, Fulvio Tartara, Giuseppe A. D’Aliberti, Marco M. Fontanella, Franco Servadei, Marco Cenzato

Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica | Issue 3/2021

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The city of Milan and the entire Italy are facing the second wave of the CoViD-19 epidemic. Today, November 20, 2020, since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,345,767 [1] people have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 over a population of 60,244,639 [2]. Of these, 48,569 died and 520,022 were discharged. Currently, the positive subjects of which there is certainly are 777,176 in the whole of Italy. As per the same date of reference, the most affected region remains Lombardy with a total 357,663 positives of which 159,641 currently positives. Eight thousand three hundred four were hospitalized, 930 in intensive care units and more than 9000 were dead over a population of 10,060,574. …

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Title: How neurosurgical departments in Lombardy are getting ready to face the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: update from the most hit region in Italy
Authors: Davide Boeris
Davide Colistra
Jacopo Falco
Fulvio Tartara
Giuseppe A. D’Aliberti
Marco M. Fontanella
Franco Servadei
Marco Cenzato
Publication date: 01-03-2021
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Keyword: COVID-19
Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica / Issue 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0001-6268
Electronic ISSN: 0942-0940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-020-04660-8

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