Cour, Martin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4909-9761
Simon, Marie
Argaud, Laurent
Monneret, Guillaume
Venet, Fabienne
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondation HCL
Article History
Received: 29 September 2021
Accepted: 13 October 2021
First Online: 18 October 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of our institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. This project was part of an ongoing prospective observational clinical study (RICO, REA-IMMUNO-COVID). It was approved by ethics committee (Comité de Protection des Personnes Ile de France 1—N°IRB/IORG #: IORG0009918) under agreement number 2020-A01079-30. This clinical study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04392401). The committee waived the need for written informed consent because the study was observational, with a low risk to patients, and no specific procedure, other than routine blood sampling, was required. Oral information and non-opposition to inclusion in the study were mandatory and were systematically obtained before any blood sample was drawn. This was recorded in patients’ clinical files. If a patient was unable to consent directly, non-opposition was obtained from the patient’s legally authorized representative and reconfirmed from the patient at the earliest opportunity.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare they have no competing interests.