Later data, still not including all deaths, revealed only one death in a patient under the age of 50 years,5 and 85·5% of patients presenting with at least two pre-existing pathologies.6 While an open-access monitoring dashboard containing several essential indicators was created on March 8, no official Italian Government websites provide a full description of the characteristics (both age and comorbidities) of cases in the ICU, nor of those hospitalised, while unofficial and sometimes conflicting data are circulating in the media.