Table 1.

Patients demographics in the two considered periods.

	March–May 2019	March–May 2020
n of patients	29,368	9,133
Mean age in years (± standard deviation)	5.4 (± 4.7)	5.9 (± 4.2)
Females / Males ratio	13,430 / 15,938	4,494/4,639
Emergency consultations [i.e., ESI 1 and ESI 2](%)	34 (0.11%)	46 (0.50%)
Urgent consultations [i.e., ESI 3](%)	1,354 (4.61%)	602 (6.59%)
Non urgent consultations [i.e., ESI 4 and ESI 5](%)	27,980 (95.25%)	8,485 (92.88%)
EMTS involvement (%)	829 (2.82%)	381 (4.17%)
Inpatient hospital admissions from ED (%)	2,812 (9.57%)	1,455 (15.93%)

ESI, emergency severity index; EMTS, emergency medical transports services; ED, Emergency Department.