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cord-339550-0yrb4qrh	Félix-Oliveira, Afonso	Caring for cardiac patients amidst the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: The scrambled pieces of the puzzle	2020-04-23		.txt	text/plain	751	54	58	By April 12, a total of 16 585 cases had been confirmed in Portugal; 504 individuals (3.0% of those confirmed as infected) had succumbed to COVID-19 and 228 (1.4%) were in the intensive care unit (ICU). Although the anticipated bottleneck in the care of COVID-19 patients was ICU beds and ventilators, healthcare workers, including cardiology professionals, are being assigned to tasks unrelated to their specialized training in order to compensate for the structural shortage of human resources in healthcare. 4,5 These patients have been strongly advised to stay at home and self-isolate to avoid being infected, in an effort to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Of note, on a week-by-week analysis, there was a trend for increasing number of deaths during March 2020, anticipating the expected rise in mortality in the following weeks ( Figure 2A ). 2, 9 Cardiovascular-related symptoms are usually among the most frequent in the ER, and cardiovascular mortality is the leading cause of death in Portugal.	./cache/cord-339550-0yrb4qrh.txt	./txt/cord-339550-0yrb4qrh.txt