A global respiratory perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic: commentary and action proposals

Teresa To; Giovanni Viegi; Alvaro Cruz; Luis Taborda-Barata; Innes Asher; Digambar Behera; Kazi Bennoor; Louis-Philippe Boulet; Jean Bousquet; Paulo Camargos; Claudia Conceiçao; Sandra Gonzalez Diaz; Asma El-Sony; Marina Erhola; Mina Gaga; David Halpin; Letitia Harding; Tamaz Maghlakelidze; Mohammad Reza Masjedi; Yousser Mohammad; Elizabete Nunes; Bernard Pigearias; Talant Sooronbaev; Rafael Stelmach; Ioanna Tsiligianni; Le Thi Tuyet Lan; Arunas Valiulis; Chen Wang; Sian Williams; Arzu Yorgancioglu

doi:10.1183/13993003.01704-2020

A global respiratory perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic: commentary and action proposals

Eur Respir J. 2020 Jul 23;56(1):2001704. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01704-2020. Print 2020 Jul.

Authors

Teresa To¹, Giovanni Viegi², Alvaro Cruz³, Luis Taborda-Barata⁴, Innes Asher⁵, Digambar Behera⁶, Kazi Bennoor⁷, Louis-Philippe Boulet⁸, Jean Bousquet⁹, Paulo Camargos¹⁰, Claudia Conceiçao¹¹, Sandra Gonzalez Diaz¹², Asma El-Sony¹³, Marina Erhola¹⁴, Mina Gaga¹⁵, David Halpin¹⁶, Letitia Harding¹⁷, Tamaz Maghlakelidze¹⁸, Mohammad Reza Masjedi¹⁹, Yousser Mohammad²⁰, Elizabete Nunes²¹, Bernard Pigearias²², Talant Sooronbaev²³, Rafael Stelmach²⁴, Ioanna Tsiligianni²⁵, Le Thi Tuyet Lan²⁶, Arunas Valiulis²⁷, Chen Wang²⁸, Sian Williams²⁹, Arzu Yorgancioglu³⁰

Affiliations

¹ The Hospital for Sick Children, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada teresa.to@sickkids.ca.
² CNR Institutes of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, and Biomedical Research and Innovation, Palermo, Italy.
³ ProAR Foundation and Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
⁴ Dept of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Cova da Beira University Hospital Centre, Covilhã, Portugal.
⁵ Dept of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁶ OSD, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Raebareli, India.
⁷ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁸ Québec heart and Lung Institute, Laval University, Québec, QC, Canada.
⁹ MACVIA-France, Fondation Partenariale FMC VIA-LR, CHRU Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France.
¹⁰ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatria, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹¹ Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹² Hospital Universitario y Facultad de Medicina, Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
¹³ Public Health Epidemiological Laboratory [Epi Lab] for Research and Development, Khartoum, Sudan.
¹⁴ Division of Health and Social Service, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁵ 7th Respiratory Medicine Dept, Asthma Cen, Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece.
¹⁶ University of Exeter Medical School, College of Medicine and Health, Exeter, UK.
¹⁷ Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, Wellington, New Zealand.
¹⁸ Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Pulmonology Dept, Chapidze Emergency Cardiology Center, Tbilisi, Georgia.
¹⁹ Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
²⁰ National Center for Research inn Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University, School of Medicine, Latakia, Syria.
²¹ Pulmonology Dept, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique.
²² Espace Francophone de Pneumologie, La Maison du poumon, Paris, France.
²³ Kyrgyzstan National Centre of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Euro-Asian Respiratory Society, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
²⁴ ProAR Foundation and Heart Institute (InCor) Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
²⁵ International Primary Care Respiratory Group; Dept of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
²⁶ Respiratory Care Center, University Medical Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
²⁷ Clinic of Children's Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Dept of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
²⁸ Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
²⁹ International Primary Care Respiratory Group, London, UK.
³⁰ Dept of Pulmonology, Medical Faculty, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.

Abstract

This paper offers practical and feasible actions to be implemented at patient, healthcare provider and community level to combat COVID-19 while attending, maintaining and strengthening ongoing health management in people with lung diseases https://bit.ly/30yNyhP

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Asthma / complications*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications*