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Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT. Electronic address: Metersky@uchc.edu.
² Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, and Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Internal Medicine Department, Respiratory Unit and Cystic Fibrosis Adult Center, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
³ Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁴ Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
⁶ Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical, Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari and Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
⁷ University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Editorial

Mark L Metersky et al. Chest. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;159(3):917-919.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.10.018.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT. Electronic address: Metersky@uchc.edu.
² Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, and Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Internal Medicine Department, Respiratory Unit and Cystic Fibrosis Adult Center, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
³ Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁴ Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
⁶ Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical, Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari and Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
⁷ University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Respiratory virus.

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