The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has placed considerable pressure on healthcare systems worldwide, forcing hospitals to implement strict infection control measures aimed at isolating all suspected cases. To preserve hospital capacity, this triage must be accurately and rapidly performed. As the most frequent clinical presentation of hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections is pneumonia, and as RT-PCR and rapid antigen/antibody tests are vulnerable to shortages during epidemics, delaying test results, lung-imaging techniques have been included into the diagnostic workup.
