Caring for patients with COPD and COVID-19: a viewpoint to spark discussion

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands sami.simons@mumc.nl.
• ² Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, UCL Medical School, London, UK.
• ³ Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d"Hebron, Ciber de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBER), Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• ⁵ Department of Research and Development, CIRO, Center of Expertise for Chronic Organ Failure, Horn, the Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• ⁷ Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Home Mechanical Ventilation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁹ Groningen Research Institute of Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.