Where have all the other coeliacs gone in 2020? Road for a 2021 catch-up with missed diagnoses

Sars-Cov2 pandemic has severely stretched national health systems worldwide. An overall rise in terms of mortality has been witnessed both for COVID-19 and for other diseases, whose diagnostic and therapeutic interventions have been delayed by the pandemic itself [1 , 2 ]. This negative interference may also be conceivable for other chronic diseases with high clinical burden and long-term complications [3] . In several countries, specialty outpatients? clinics have been transiently closed or relocated in order to tackle Sars-Cov2 spreading [4 , 5 ]. Coupled with this, the fear of contracting Covid-19 and stay-at-home orders have led to a striking reduction of primary care consultations and even hospital accesses [6 , 7 ]. Undeniably, this could imply both diagnostic delays and still missing diagnoses in several fields of medicine, including coeliac disease (CeD). Telemedicine gained a lot of popularity during 2020 and re