1 Cologne Merheim Hospital, Dept of Pneumology, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany.
2 Dept of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
3 Dept of Intensive Care and Ventilatory Medicine, Asklepios Klinikum Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany.
4 Dept of Pneumology and Mechancial Ventilation, Ev. Krankenhaus Göttingen-Weende e.V., Beatmungsmedizin und Schlaflabor, Bovenden-Lenglern, Germany.
5 Dept of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Charité (Universitätsmedizin Berlin), corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
This correspondence argues that the conclusion given in the article "Conservative management of COVID-19-associated hypoxaemia" is not supported by the data https://bit.ly/3qAn7la.