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Fig. 1 | BMC Infectious Diseases

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From: Lessons learned and implications of early therapies for coronavirus disease in a territorial service centre in the Calabria region: a retrospective study

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Flow chart of drugs prescription choices according to risk of progression of COVID-19.

*Presence of at least one of the following factors: age > 65 years, BMI ≥ 30, patients chronically subjected to peritoneal dialysis or haemodialysis, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus or with chronic complications, primitive or secondary immunodeficiency (particularly concerning patients being treated with immunosuppressive drugs or less than 6 months from suspension of treatment), cardiocerebrovascular disease (including arterial hypertension with organ damage), COPD and/or other chronic respiratory diseases (lung fibrosis or patient needing O2-therapy for reasons different from SARS-CoV-2 infection), active oncological or oncohematological disease, chronic hepatopathy, hemoglobinopathies, neurodegenerative disorders

1 Patients affected by haematological malignancies/autoimmune diseases or treated with immunosuppressive drugs or transplant receivers

2 First choice in patients with eGFR > 30 ml/min and no major drug interactions

3 Useful in patients with eGFR > 30 ml/min if major drug interactions contraindicate nirmatrelvir/ritonavir or in patients with dysphagia

4 For use in patients with severe renal insufficiency and/or partially immunised (i.e., previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, vaccination course incomplete or completed more than 6 months before)

5 mAbs therapy was chosen considering local epidemiology of variants of concern

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