D’Onofrio, Valentino
Van Steenkiste, Eveline
Meersman, Agnes
Waumans, Luc
Cartuyvels, Reinoud
Van Halem, Karlijn
Messiaen, Peter
Gyssens, Inge C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9226-0752
Funding for this research was provided by:
Horizon 2020 (GA 634137)
Article History
Received: 10 July 2020
Accepted: 20 November 2020
First Online: 3 December 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Documented approval for both studies was obtained from the Ethics committees of Hasselt University and Jessa Hospital (18.106/infect18.03, 19.51/infect.19.02 and 20.38/infect.20.06). Written informed consent for participation and publication was obtained from all participants with influenza. No informed consent was needed for the retrospective cohort study of COVID-19 patients, according to Belgian legislation.