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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy

Data as of March 15, 2020
Timeline of COVID-19 symptom onset and diagnosis in 2020

Date of symptom onset (8331 cases)

22 512
cases of COVID-19
2000
Date of diagnosis/sample (13 323 cases)

Data in the shaded area should be

interpreted with caution due to the
1500 possible reporting delay of more

Patients
recently diagnosed cases and cases
with date of onset within the reporting

2026
cases of COVID-19 among 1000
period that have not yet been diagnosed

health care workers

500

1625
deaths
Jan 28 Feb 3 Feb 10 Feb 17 Feb 24 Mar 2 Mar 9

Cases by age range Cases by sex Cases by severity

24.0% 24.9%
1.2% 19-50 y 37.3% 40.2% Severe
46.1%
51-70 y Female
0-18 y 59.8% 5.0% Mild
Male Critical
37.6%
>70 y 6.7%
No symptoms

Median age, 64 y 10.6% 6.7%

Unspecified symptoms Few symptoms

Age, y Deaths, No. (% of total) Case-fatality rate, % Cases by region/province of diagnosis

0-9 0 0
1-50
10-19 0 0
51-200
20-29 0 0 201-500
501-1000
30-39 4 (0.25) 0.3 1001-2000
>2000
40-49 10 (0.62) 0.4
50-59 43 (2.65) 1.0
60-69 139 (8.55) 3.5
70-79 578 (35.57) 12.5
80-89 694 (42.71) 19.7
≥90 156 (9.6) 22.7
Not reported 1 (0.06) 0.6
Total 1625 (100) 7.2

Authors: Edward Livingston, MD; Sources: Adapted from the COVID-19 Task Force of the Department of Infectious
Karen Bucher, MA, CMI Diseases and the IT Service Instituto Superiore di Sanità. https://www.iss.it/infografiche
Please cite as: JAMA. Published online March 17, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4344

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