It has also been estimated that in the U.S.A., the health care costs for a single infected patient is over $3000, resulting in an overall predicted expenditure of $654.0 billion over the entire period of the pandemic [6,7].A flu-like syndrome of mild severity has been observed in most cases (80%) of COVID-19 [8,9], but in 20% of cases there have been other complications such as interstitial pneumonia with a variable degree of respiratory failure [10] as well as thromboembolic complications, including venous thromboembolism (VTE), ischemic stroke and acute coronary syndrome (ACS)/myocardial infarction [11].