How sexual medicine is facing the outbreak of COVID-19: experience of Italian urological community and future perspectives

摘要

Since late December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumoniacases in the city of Wuhan, in the Hubei Province, China. Ithas rapidly spread throughout China, followed by anincreasing number of cases world widely. The diffusion ofcoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already reachedthe necessary epidemiological criteria for it to be declaredpandemic, having infected more than 100,000 people in 100countries.