hina [1]. This disease was caused by a new coronavirus, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) [2]. In contrast to past epidemics, which took years to spread around the world, the new virus reached Europe in a few months [3], with the first official case identified in Northern Italy on February 18 [4] and leading to the Italian outbreak. COVID-19 is a systemic