emerged at the end of 2019 from Wuhan has already spread beyond China [1], which led
WHO to declare a public health emergency of international concern by Jan 30, 2020.
Infection caused by this virus (COVID-19) courses with severe community acquired
pneumonia (CAP) in a minority of the cases, but given its transmission characteristics, this is
a further cause of alarm. In two recent articles from Huang C et al. and Yang X in The Lancet …