Concerns About Coronavirus Disease-Related Collateral Damage for Patients With COPD

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: vpress@bsd.uchicago.edu.
² Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
⁴ Intermountain Healthcare and the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Murray, UT.

Editorial

Valerie G Press et al. Chest. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;158(3):866-868.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.05.549. Epub 2020 May 28.

¹ Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: vpress@bsd.uchicago.edu.
² Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
⁴ Intermountain Healthcare and the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Murray, UT.

No abstract available

Keywords: COPD; COVID; care management; health-care systems; obstructive lung disease.

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