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. 2020 May 13;96(1137):375–376. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-137876

Table 1.

Estimated increase in hospital doctor workforce in the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy shown per region

Regions of
italy
Final year medical students
(n=9640)1
Hospital medical doctors (n=92 950)5 Estimated increase % in medical doctor workforce
(10.3%)
COVID-19
current positive cases
(n=95 262)1
Hospitalised patients
(n=28 485)1
29.9%
Patients admitted to
intensive care unit
(n=3693)1 3.87%
Deaths
(n=17 669)1
Case fatality
rate
(12.6%)*
Lombardy 795 16 114 4.9 28 545 11 719 1257 9722 18.2
Emilia Romagna 636 6844 9.3 1311 3769 361 2234 12.3
Piedmont 537 7530 7.1 10 989 3493 423 1378 9.9
Veneto 427 7347 5.8 10 171 1554 285 736 59.3
Liguria 112 3172 3.5 3245 1109 153 654 13.3
Marche 96 2412 4.0 3562 974 133 652 13.4
Tuscany 533 6921 7.7 5557 1066 260 392 6.1
Trento 0 915 0.0 194 354 77 255 9.8
Lazio 1403 8337 16.8 3448 1241 196 244 5.7
Campania 1789 6390 28.0 2859 608 97 221 6.8
Apulia 510 6094 8.4 2238 639 90 219 8.3
Bolzano 0 945 0.0 1281 268 65 183 10.0
Abruzzo 518 2044 25.3 1534 331 62 179 9.6
Friuli V.G. 87 2077 4.2 1415 162 41 169 7.6
Sicily 987 6786 14.5 1893 563 65 133 6.2
Aosta Valley 0 288 0.0 606 120 20 102 12.0
Calabria 144 2446 5.9 755 170 15 60 7.0
Sardinia 359 3318 10.8 840 112 31 59 6.1
Umbria 633 1632 38.8 823 155 41 50 3.9
Basilicata 0 913 0.0 270 48 17 14 4.7
Molise 74 425 17.4 181 30 4 13 5.8

Data are from the Italian Ministry of Health, Italian Ministry of Education University and Research.

*Based on the total count of 139 422 confirmed cases on 8 April 2020, 17h00 UTC+1.