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We thank Cohen Aubart et al for their correspondence.1 Their study on 36 patients with sarcoidosis and COVID-19 from 15 French centres provides interesting insights on the outcome of COVID-19 in this group of patients. These data provide evidence that a higher percentage of patients with sarcoidosis with COVID-19 might require intensive care support than in the general population. In contrast, sarcoidosis does not seem to affect the severity of COVID-19, and patients with sarcoidosis-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) are not admitted more often to the intensive care unit (ICU) than patients without ILD.
The data by Cohen Aubart et al 1 show that 85% of the patients with sarcoidosis with COVID-19 admitted …
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Handling editor Josef S Smolen
Contributors All authors contributed to drafting and revising the article and approved the final version.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests JHWD is involved in the development of new targeted therapies for fibrotic diseases such as systemic sclerosis. JHWD has consultancy relationships with Actelion, Active Biotech, Anamar, ARXX, Bayer Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Galapagos, GSK, Inventiva, JB Therapeutics, Medac, Pfizer, RuiYi and UCB. JHWD has received research funding from Anamar, Active Biotech, Array Biopharma, aTyr, BMS, Bayer Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Galapagos, GSK, Inventiva, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, RedX and UCB. JHWD is stock owner of 4D Science and Scientific head of FibroCure.
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