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Article History

Received: 12 June 2020

Revised: 30 July 2020

Accepted: 8 September 2020

First Online: 18 September 2020

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Francesco De Cobelli M.D.

: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.

: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.

: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.

: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.

: In the paper “Early predictors of clinical outcomes of COVID-19 outbreak in Milan, Italy” by Ciceri et al, published online in Clinical Immunology () clinical and chest radiography findings of 410 patients of the COVID-19 institutional clinical-biological cohort (Covid-BioB, NCT04318366) were analyzed in relation to outcomes.In this paper, of which I am a co-author, radiological findings were only a minor part of all the predictors evaluated and only shortly mentioned in the discussion. The present study expanded the sample, despite the stricter exclusion criteria, focusing on the radiological findings.

: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution