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cord-266511-g5h4tazp	Deslandes, A	SARS-COV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019	2020-05-03		.txt	text/plain	1369	93	58	We report here a case of a patient hospitalized in December 2019 in our intensive care, of our hospital in the north of Paris, for hemoptysis with no etiological diagnosis and for which RT-PCR was performed retrospectively on the stored respiratory sample which confirmed the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. After its onset in December 2019 in China, the new coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) spreads widely in several countries, causing COVID-19 illness. 8 Clinical symptomatology between COVID-19 and ILIis similar,we therefore decided retrospectively to look for SARS-COV2 in respiratory samples collected in the intensive care units (ICUs) of our hospital near Paris. We reviewed medical record of ICUs patients admitted for ILI between December 2, 2019 and January 16, 2020, with a negative RT-PCR performed at admission. Samples taken from patients with both ILI symptoms (fever higher than 38.5°C, cough, rhinitis, sore throat or myalgia) and ground glass opacity according to their medical record underwent SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR.	./cache/cord-266511-g5h4tazp.txt	./txt/cord-266511-g5h4tazp.txt