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

Affiliations

• ¹ The Hospital for Sick Children, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada [email protected].
• 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.