Early COVID-19 lockdown in Greece and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a beneficial "impact" beyond any expectation

Affiliations

• ¹ 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Dept, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ² First Academic Dept of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest "Sotiria", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ³ Iatriko Medical Center, Athens, Greece.
• ⁴ Pulmonary Dept, "G Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ⁵ 7th Pulmonary Dept, Athens Chest Hospital "Sotiria", Athens Greece.
• ⁶ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, General Hospital of Patras, University of Patras, Patra, Greece.
• ⁷ A Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ⁸ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
• ⁹ Dept of Pneumonology, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.
• ¹⁰ Dept of Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
• ¹¹ Pulmonary Dept, Corfu General Hospital, Corfu, Greece.
• ¹² Private practice, Messini, Greece.
• ¹³ Private practice, Ioannina, Greece.
• ¹⁴ Dept of Thoracic Medicine and Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
• ¹⁵ These authors contributed equally to this work.