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Received: 18 October 2020

Accepted: 9 February 2021

First Online: 22 March 2021

Competing interests

: D.A. is founder, director and chair of the advisory board of Forkhead Therapeutics. B.B. reports being a consulting expert, on behalf of the plaintiff, for litigation related to two specific brand models of inferior vena cava filter. D.B. receives research support from ALung Technologies and is on the medical advisory boards for Baxter, Abiomed, Xenios and Hemovent. T.K.C. reports research support (institutional and personal) from AstraZeneca, Alexion, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb/ER Squibb and Sons, Cerulean, Eisai, Foundation Medicine, Exelixis, Ipsen, Tracon, Genentech, Roche, Roche Products, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Merck, Novartis, Peloton, Pfizer, Prometheus Laboratories, Corvus, Calithera, Analysis Group, Sanofi/Aventis and Takeda; honoraria from AstraZeneca, Alexion, Sanofi/Aventis, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb/ER Squibb and Sons, Cerulean, Eisai, Foundation Medicine, Exelixis, Genentech, Roche, Roche Products, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, Peloton, Pfizer, EMD Serono, Prometheus Laboratories, Corvus, Ipsen, UpToDate, NCCN, Analysis Group, Michael J. Hennessy (MJH) Associates (a healthcare communications company with several brands such as OncLive, PeerView and PER), Research to Practice, Lpath, <i>Kidney Cancer</i>, Clinical Care Options, PlatformQ, Navinata Health, Harborside Press, the American Society of Medical Oncology, the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, <i>Lancet Oncology</i>, Heron Therapeutics and Lilly Oncology; a consultant or advisory role for AstraZeneca, Alexion, Sanofi/Aventis, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb/ER Squibb and Sons, Cerulean, Eisai, Foundation Medicine, Exelixis, Genentech, Heron Therapeutics, Lilly, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, Peloton, Pfizer, EMD Serono, Prometheus Laboratories, Corvus, Ipsen, UpToDate, NCCN, Analysis Group, Pionyr, Tempest and Lilly Ventures; stock ownership in Pionyr and Tempest; and medical writing and editorial assistance support from communications companies funded by pharmaceutical companies (ClinicalThinking, Envision Pharma Group, Fishawack Group of Companies, Health Interactions, Parexel, Oxford PharmaGenesis and others). J.M.C. reports a consultant or advisory role for Abbott Vascular, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Portola and Takeda, as well as research support (institutional) from CSL Behring. M.S.V.E. reports receiving royalties from UpToDate for chapters on stroke and COVID-19. A.G. received payment from the Arnold & Porter law firm for work related to the Sanofi clopidogrel litigation and from the Ben C. Martin law firm for work related to the Cook inferior vena cava filter litigation; received consulting fees from Edward Lifesciences; and holds equity in the healthcare telecardiology startup Heartbeat Health. D.W.L. is chair of the scientific advisory board for Applied Therapeutics, which licenses Columbia University technology unrelated to COVID-19 or COVID-19-related therapies.

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