Corticosteroid Injections and COVID-19 Infection Risk

Affiliations

¹ Napa Pain Institute, Napa, California.
² Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Interventional Pain & Spine, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
⁵ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
⁶ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁷ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁸ Orange County Spine and Sports, PC, Interventional Physiatry, Costa Mesa, California.
⁹ Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

David C Miller et al. Pain Med. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 1;21(8):1703-1706.

doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa199.

¹ Napa Pain Institute, Napa, California.
² Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Interventional Pain & Spine, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
⁵ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
⁶ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁷ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁸ Orange County Spine and Sports, PC, Interventional Physiatry, Costa Mesa, California.
⁹ Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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