What Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Taught Us so Far? Addressing the Problem from a Hepatologist's Perspective

Affiliations

¹ Liver Research Unit, Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico.
² Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command (Formerly General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area), Shenyang, China.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁵ UCM Digestive Diseases and CIBERehd, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), SeLiver Group, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
⁶ Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁷ Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy.
⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, Changzheng Hospital of the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
⁹ Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Medical Faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Hanau, Germany.
¹⁰ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
¹¹ Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Editorial

Nahum Méndez-Sánchez et al. J Clin Transl Hepatol. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 28;8(2):0024.

doi: 10.14218/JCTH.2020.00024. Epub 2020 Apr 11.

¹ Liver Research Unit, Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico.
² Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command (Formerly General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area), Shenyang, China.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁵ UCM Digestive Diseases and CIBERehd, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), SeLiver Group, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
⁶ Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁷ Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy.
⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, Changzheng Hospital of the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
⁹ Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Medical Faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Hanau, Germany.
¹⁰ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
¹¹ Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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