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Comment
. 2020 Oct 15;56(4):2003236.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.03236-2020. Print 2020 Oct.

A cuckoo COVID coincidence?

James D Chalmers  1 , Mike Lonergan  1
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A cuckoo COVID coincidence?

James D Chalmers et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

There are limitations to inferring causality from observational data, but lockdowns have almost certainly saved lives worldwide https://bit.ly/2YWAhhl

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: J.D. Chalmers reports grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and Insmed; personal fees from Chiesi, Novartis and Zambon; and grants from Gilead Sciences, outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: M. Lonergan has nothing to disclose.

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