id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-322663-a58e6pp8 Giacomelli, Andrea 30-day mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the Italian epidemic: a prospective cohort study 2020-05-22 .txt text/plain 3158 147 51 The clinical characteristics of all the COVID-19 patients hospitalised in the early days of the epidemic (21 February -19 March 2020) were recorded upon admission, and the time-dependent probability of death was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier method (censored as of 20 April 2020). The Department of Infectious Diseases of Luigi Sacco Hospital (the national reference centre for epidemiological emergencies and bioterrorism in northern Italy) has been admitting SARS-CoV-2 patients (particularly those coming from the "red zone" municipalities first involved in the epidemic) since the night of 20 February 2020, when the first COVID-19 case was identified in a town about 50 km from Milan [9]. ./cache/cord-322663-a58e6pp8.txt ./txt/cord-322663-a58e6pp8.txt