Updates are available Correction dated 2021-08-19

Article History

Received: 24 May 2021

Accepted: 19 June 2021

First Online: 6 July 2021

Change Date: 19 August 2021

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-021-01665-y

Declarations

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: C. D. Spinner received consultancy fees, speaker’s honoraria, and/or reimbursement of travel expenses from Gilead Sciences, Eli Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, MSD and received consultancy fees from Molecular Partners and Formycon in the context of COVID-19. He also received research support indirectly from Apeiron, Eli Lilly, Gilead Sciences, and Janssen-Cilag. Outside this context, he received consultancy fees, speaker’s honoraria, and reimbursement of travel expenses from AbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Janssen-Cilag, MSD, and ViiV Healthcare/GSK, as well as research support (indirectly to his employer) from Gilead Sciences, GSK, Jansen-Cilag, MSD, and ViiV Healthcare. T. Welte received consultancy fees from AstraZeneca, Basilea, Biotest, Bayer, Boehringer, GSK, Janssens, Novartis, Pfizer and Roche. He received lecture fees and travel cost support from AstraZeneca, Basilea, Biotest, Bayer, Boehringer, Berlin Chemie GSK, Infectopharm, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche and research support By DFG, BMBF, EU, WHO. S. Weber-Carstens is working in a scientific cooperation project with the company Dräger. F. Langer has received personal fees for lectures, advisory boards or consultancy and/or research support from Aspen, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Daiichi Sankyo, LEO Pharma, Pfizer, and Sanofi, outside the submitted work. M. Westhoff received lecture honoraria from Actelion, Boehringer, Novartis, Löwenstein, and research support from Bayer. M. Pfeifer received lecture fees from Astra-Zeneca, Boehringer, Chiesi, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Novartis, and Roche. He received consulting fees from Boehringer, Chiesi, Novartis, and Roche, and travel support from Boehringer. K. F. Rabe has received consultancy fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer, Sanofi Aventis, MSD, and Novartis. He received lecture fees and travel support from Roche, Chiesi Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Orion Cooperation, Berlin Chemie, Boehringer, AstraZeneca, MSD, Novartis, and Sanofi Aventis, research support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. B. W. Böttiger received fees for lectures from the following companies: Forum für medizinische Fortbildung (FomF), Baxalta Deutschland GmbH, ZOLL Medical Deutschland GmbH, C.R. Bard GmbH, GS Elektromedizinische Geräte G. Stemple GmbH, Novartis Pharma GmbH, Philips GmbH Market DACH, Bioscience Valuation BSV GmbH. J. Weinmann-Menke received research support from GSK, DIAMED, Miltenyi Biotech, lecture fees from Astellas, Astra Zeneca, Norvartis, Bial, Roche, Chiesi, GSK, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Miltenyi, Bayer, Vifor, Fresenius. She received consultancy fees from Bayer, Bial, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Chiesi, Astra Zeneca and GSK. M. Nothacker is a guideline methodologist payed by the AWMF. G. Marx received consultancy fees and research support from Biotest, B.Braun, and Adrenomed, and lecture fees from B.Braun, Biotest, and Philips. He holds a patent for modulation of the TLR4 signaling pathway (European Patent 2855519). C. Karagiannidis has received consultancy fees from Bayer and Xenios. S. Kluge has received research support from Ambu, Daiichi Sankyo, ETView Ltd, Fisher & Paykel, Pfizer, and Xenios. He has received lecture honoraria from Astra, C.R. Bard, Baxter, Biotest, Cytosorbents, Daiichi Sankyo, Fresenius, Gilead, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, MSD, Pfizer, Philips, ZOLL. He received consultancy fees from Bayer, Fresenius, Gilead, MSD and Pfizer. J. J. Malin, U. Janssens, G. Schälte, P. Gastmeier, M. Wepler, F. Hoffmann, A. Kersten, P. Berlit, M. Krawczyk, W. Nehls, F. Fichtner, S. Laudi, M. Stegemann and N. Skoetz report no potential conflicts of interest.