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Affiliations

• ¹ Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University of Southampton, UK. Electronic address: kordosaeed@nhs.net.
• ² Emergency Department, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IdISSC), Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
• ³ Swedish Covenant Hospital, Finch University Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School, USA.
• ⁴ GREPI EA 7408 University of Grenoble-Alpes, and Geriatric department, University Hospital of Grenoble-Alpes, France.
• ⁵ Intensive Care Department. Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. Barcelona, Spain & Shock, Organ Dysfunction and Resuscitation Research Group. Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research, Spain.
• ⁶ CHIP & PERSIMUNE, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Section for Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Herlev-Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark.
• ⁷ University of Pécs, Emergency Department, Pécs, Hungary.
• ⁸ Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
• ⁹ Semmelweis University, Department of Transplant Surgery, Budapest, Hungary.
• ¹⁰ Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
• ¹¹ Johns Hopkins University, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, USA.
• ¹² Kantonsspital Aarau, Internal Medicine, Aarau, Switzerland; University of Basel, Switzerland.