ARIA-EAACI statement on asthma and COVID-19 (June 2, 2020)

Affiliations

• ¹ Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ² Comprehensive Allergy Center, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
• ³ University Hospital Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
• ⁴ MACVIA-France, Montpellier, France.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Immunology, Wrocław Medical University and ALL-MED Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland.
• ⁶ Akdis M. Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Center for Rhinology and Allergology, Wiesbaden, Germany.
• ⁸ Section of Rhinology and Allergy, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Marburg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ⁹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ¹⁰ The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Food allergy and Anaphylaxis Program, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹¹ Department of Allergy and Immunology, Hospital Quironsalud Bizkaia, Erandio, Spain.
• ¹² Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobAL, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹³ IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁴ Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁵ CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁶ Upper Airways Research Laboratory, ENT Department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ¹⁷ International Airway Research Center, First Affiliated Hospital Guangzou, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzou, China.
• ¹⁸ Division of ENT Diseases, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁹ Department of ENT Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ²⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ²¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• ²² Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
• ²³ Clinical Emergency Hospital for Children MS Curie, Bucharest, Romania.
• ²⁴ Department of Geriatrics, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France.
• ²⁵ EA:2991, Euromov, University Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
• ²⁶ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
• ²⁷ National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²⁸ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ²⁹ Woolcock Emphysema Centre and Sydney Local Health District, Glebe, NSW, Australia.
• ³⁰ Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada.
• ³¹ Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino and Mauriziano Hospital, Torino, Italy.
• ³² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Mainz University Hospital, Mainz, Germany.
• ³³ Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• ³⁴ Personalized Medicine Asthma and Allergy Clinic-Humanitas University and Research Hospital, IRCCS-Milano, Milano, Italy.
• ³⁵ Allergy Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d'Hebron and ARADyAL research network, Barcelona, Spain.
• ³⁶ Division of Allergy/immunology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
• ³⁷ School of Medicine, University CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain.
• ³⁸ Faculty of Public Health, Medical University - Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ³⁹ Fundação ProAR, Federal University of Bahia and GARD/WHO Planning Group, Salvador, Brazil.
• ⁴⁰ Medical Consulting Czarlewski, Levallois, France.
• ⁴¹ Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health and Unit of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ⁴² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Wuhan Children's Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ⁴³ Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Centers, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁴⁵ EUFOREA, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴⁶ Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems, CINTESIS, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁴⁷ Allergy Unit, Instituto CUF Porto e Hospital CUF Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁴⁸ Health Information and Decision Sciences Department - CIDES, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁴⁹ Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁵⁰ Department of Allergology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
• ⁵¹ 7th Respiratory Medicine Department and Asthma Center, Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ⁵² Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁵³ Center of Allergy and Immunology, Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia.
• ⁵⁴ Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁵⁵ College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
• ⁵⁶ Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Kinderzentrum Bethel, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel EvKB, University Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
• ⁵⁷ Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁵⁸ Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Bicêtrem, Inserm UMR_S999, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
• ⁵⁹ National Research Center - Institute of Immunology Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
• ⁶⁰ IServicio de Alergia e Immunologia, Clinica Santa Isabel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ⁶¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁶² Makerere University Lung Institute, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁶³ Departments of Immunology and Dermatology/Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ⁶⁴ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• ⁶⁵ Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁶⁶ Department of Immunology and Allergy, Healthy Ageing Research Center, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
• ⁶⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
• ⁶⁸ Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Barlicki University Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
• ⁶⁹ Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ⁷⁰ Clinic of Chest diseases and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ⁷¹ Allergy and Immunology Centre, Pantai Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁷² University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
• ⁷³ Division Paediatric Allergology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁷⁴ Center of Excellence in Asthma and Allergy, Médica Sur Clinical Foundation and Hospital, México City, Mexico.
• ⁷⁵ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, CHU Sart-Tilman, and GIGA I3 Research Group, Liege, Belgium.
• ⁷⁶ Tobacco Control Research Centre, Iranian Anti Tobacco Association, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁷⁷ Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁷⁸ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁷⁹ National Institute of Pneumology M Nasta, Bucharest, Romania.
• ⁸⁰ Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, Serbian Association for Asthma and COPD, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ⁸¹ National Center for Research in Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University School of Medicine, Latakia, Syria.
• ⁸² Syrian Private University-Damascus, Damas, Syria.
• ⁸³ Allergy Center, CUF Descobertas Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁸⁴ Rhinology Unit and Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁸⁵ Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁸⁶ Scientific Centre of Children's Health Under the MoH, Moscow, Russia.
• ⁸⁷ Russian National Research Medical University Named Pirogov, Moscow, Russia.
• ⁸⁸ Director of Center of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Diseases, Santa Fe, Argentina.
• ⁸⁹ Argentina Center for Allergy and Immunology, Santa Fe, Argentina.
• ⁹⁰ Serviço de Pneumologia Hospital Central and Faculdade de Medicina Dr Eduardo Mondelane, Maputo, Mozambique.
• ⁹¹ Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ⁹² Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ⁹³ Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Central Clinical School, Monash University, and Alfred Health, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
• ⁹⁴ Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
• ⁹⁵ National Hospital Organization, Tokyo National Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
• ⁹⁷ Department of Immunology and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Hospital in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
• ⁹⁸ Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ⁹⁹ Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, Ospedale Policlino San Martino -University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
• ¹⁰⁰ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Agency of Health ASL Salerno, "Santa Maria della Speranza" Hospital, Salerno, Italy.
• ¹⁰¹ Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰² Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, IRBA (Institut de Recherche bio-Médicale des Armées),, Bretigny, France.
• ¹⁰³ Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française, Espace Francophone de Pneumologie, Paris, France.
• ¹⁰⁴ University Hospital 'Sv Ivan Rilski'", Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ¹⁰⁵ Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ¹⁰⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Immunology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ¹⁰⁷ Faculty of Medicine, ICBR - Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research, CIBB, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ¹⁰⁸ Division of Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology, Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel.
• ¹⁰⁹ Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
• ¹¹⁰ Department of Prevention of Envinronmental Hazards and Allergology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
• ¹¹¹ Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, CIBERES, Autonoma University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹¹² Centre for Inflammation Research, Child Life and Health, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹¹³ The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹¹⁴ PROMISE Department, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
• ¹¹⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Nacional de Niños, San José, Costa Rica.
• ¹¹⁶ Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• ¹¹⁷ Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital da Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹¹⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹¹⁹ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
• ¹²⁰ Department of Immunoallergology, Cova da Beira University Hospital Centre, Covilhã, Portugal.
• ¹²¹ The Hospital for Sick Children, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹²² Department of General ORL, H&NS, Medical University of Graz, ENT-University Hospital Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ¹²³ Health Planning Unit, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
• ¹²⁴ International Primary Care Respiratory Group International Primary Care Respiratory Group, (IPCRG), Aberdeen, Scotland.
• ¹²⁵ Airways Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
• ¹²⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ¹²⁷ European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP/UEMS-SP), Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹²⁸ Unit of Geriatric Immunoallergology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy.
• ¹²⁹ Pulmonary Environmental Epidemiology Unit, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy.
• ¹³⁰ CNR Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Palermo, Italy.
• ¹³¹ Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ¹³² Department of Otolaryngology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹³³ International Primary Care Respiratory Group IPCRG, Aberdeen, Scotland.
• ¹³⁴ Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
• ¹³⁵ Department of Pulmonology, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
• ¹³⁶ Universidad Nacional de Villa Maria, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
• ¹³⁷ University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Golnik, Slovenia.
• ¹³⁸ Transylvania University Brasov, Brasov, Romania.