CONTEXT PART

Demographics and hospitals
Question 1: In which country do you practice? (Answer rate 383/409, 93.6%)
A total of 298 (77.8%) participants were from Europe, 39 (10.2%) from Asia, 20 (5.3%) from North America, 17 (4.5%) from South America, 8(2%) from Africa and 1 (0.2%) from Oceania (Fig. 1).
Figure 1:  Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) survey response. (A) World Health Organization (WHO) map describes the countries, areas or territories with COVID-19 cases reported during the 7 days from 14 April 2020 to 20 April 2020 [reproduced from https://covid19.who.int/ at WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard; WHO permission ref 349467/2020]. (B) Countries in lockdown due to COVID-19 during the same period described in the WHO map. (C and D) All countries, areas or territories participating in the COVID-19 survey and their relative contributions. Question 2: In which type of institution do you practice? (Answer rate 405/409, 99%)
The majority of the respondents worked in academic hospitals (Supplementary Material, Fig. S1) (n = 290, 71.6%). Supraregional (non-academic) and regional (non-academic) hospitals were 11.6% (n = 47) and 12.59% (n = 51), respectively.
Question 3: How many COVID-19 positive patients is your hospital treating? (Answer rate 405/409, 99%)
The majority of respondents worked in hospitals treating no more than 20 patients with COVID-19 (30.6%). Conversely, 22.7% reported that their hospital was treating more than 200 infected patients (Supplementary Material, Fig. S2).
Question 4: How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting normal functioning of your hospital? (Answer rate 405/409, 99%)
Most of the respondents answered that the functioning of the hospital was considerably (55.3%) or extremely (16.3%) affected (Supplementary Material, Fig. S3).
Question 5: Are the health care personnel tested in your hospital? (Answer rate 405/409, 99%)
Only 50% of health care workers were tested at their hospitals when symptomatic and 11% were not tested at all; 32% of respondents reported that workers were tested after being in contact with COVID-positive patients.