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Article History

Received: 24 June 2022

Accepted: 19 August 2022

First Online: 30 August 2022

Declarations

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: This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of University of Palermo (protocol: 07/2019). This work uses data obtained by healthy volunteer subjects (research staff and volunteer medical students) collected at the Dept of BiND and DISB, University of Palermo and Urbino, respectively, as part of their care and healthy bio-humoral checks. The need for informed consent from individual patients was waived owing to the retrospective nature of the study. In fact, clinical data for both COVID-19 and Sepsis patients were retrospectively collected by review and extraction medical data and laboratory test results from electronic health records of University Hospital Lab Med Dept of Palermo. All investigations have been conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki principles. In line with non-interventional retrospective design of this in vitro study, MDW assessments were performed on volunteers without clinical indications and no clinical decisions were made based on MDW values.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.