Our goal was to gain insights into whether the impact of the post-COVID condition was confined to the first 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 PCR negativization or whether it continued to burden the regional health service for a longer time period and more frequently and heavily than before the pandemic [3]. Moreover, hospitalizations, emergency room attendance, and outpatient medical visits were much less prevalent than in the early post-COVID semester and were similar to those recorded in the regional database in the corresponding months of the 2019 pre-COVID period. Dear Editor, The northern Italian region of Lombardy (population 10 million) was the first large European area to be heavily hit in the early months of 2020 by the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic due to the original Wuhan coronavirus strain. [Extracted from the article]