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Dear Editor, Patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome due to coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) require intensive care unit (ICU) admission for hypoxemic respiratory failure [1]. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shortages of essential material and human resources that mandate practices such as triage and rationing [2]. Little information on this new disease is available to help clinicians identify, at the time they make the decision of ICU admission, the patients who have severe hypoxemia but a relatively low risk of intubation or death if admitted to the ICU. We report the clinical and laboratory features in an observational cohort of 85 consecutive COVID-19 patients admitted to an ICU in Paris, France, between March 7 and April 6, 2020. Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays of nasopharyngeal samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2 in all 85 patients. The median age was 61 (53–67 …