Fig. 1.
A. Cumulative number over the study period of patients with laboratory-confirmed infection of SARS-CoV-2 admitted in COVID-19 units (blue), transferred in COVID-19 ICUs (yellow) or died in hospital general wards (red); B. Box plot of the NEWS score (blue) and modified NEWS score (mNEWS; red) [4] values according the occurrence or not of a clinical deterioration in COVID-19 patients; C. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of NEWS (blue) and mNEWS (red) scores to predict clinical deterioration in COVID-19 patients.