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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: smurgu@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

Comment

Carla R Lamb et al. Chest. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;159(1):455-456.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.09.244.

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: smurgu@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

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Lamb CR, Desai NR, Angel L, Chaddha U, Sachdeva A, Sethi S, Bencheqroun H, Mehta H, Akulian J, Argento AC, Diaz-Mendoza J, Musani A, Murgu S. Lamb CR, et al. Chest. 2020 Oct;158(4):1499-1514. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.05.571. Epub 2020 Jun 6. Chest. 2020. PMID: 32512006 Free PMC article.
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