Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Era of COVID-19: A Challenge in a Challenge.

In their study, Popa-Fotea et al. [[5]] compared the profiles and outcomes of STEMI patients hospitalized during the pandemic compared with a control group of STEMI patients who were admitted to the emergency department in the pre-pandemic period. STEMI hospital admissions fell during the COVID-19 period during the first and second years of the pandemic (-30.26% and -25.4%, respectively), alongside a significant increase in all-cause in-hospital mortality (+11.5% in the pandemic period compared to +8.1% in the previous pre-COVID year). From the very beginning, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has tested the healthcare systems, having unpredictable and extreme adverse impacts on acute care clinical settings. [Extracted from the article]