[The role of thoracic CT scan, a triage tool for suspected COVID-19 cases].

The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic took health care players across the world by surprise, including caregivers, managers and logisticians. In the absence of a vaccine or a specific therapy, detecting the disease at an early stage and isolating confirmed cases from the rest of the healthy population was soon considered to be essential. The RT-PCR technique was the gold standard method for testing for infection with the virus.