We would like to thank all staff (medical laboratory assistants, biomedical scientists, clinical scientists, physicians, health care assistants, nurses) in any way involved in the management and care of patients during this pandemic.

Particular thanks to:

Fabio Del Ben, Martina Comand, Agnese Zanus-Fortes, Fabiana Dallai, Denise D’Elia, Eleonora Vania, Angela Acquasanta, Monica Gemignani, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy

Matilde Mori, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK; Gabrielle Vernet, Thomas Ledgerwood, Claire Thomas, and Veronica Garcia-Arias, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, UK; Michelle Young, Whittington Hospital, London, UK.

Davide Lombardo, Alice Giaccone, Eleonora Balzani and Giulio Mengozzi, Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, University of Turin, 10126 Torino, Italy; All the staff of the intensive care unit (AR1-CAR) at Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, University of Turin, 10126 Torino, Italy

María Galindo Martínez, Critical Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain; Valerio Campos Rodríguez, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain; María Salomé Ros Braquehais, Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain; Verónica Ramos Arenas, Laboratory Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain; Andrés Conesa Hernández, Emergency Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain; Luciano Consuegra-Sánchez, Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain.

María José Alcaraz García, Antonia Alcaraz, Carlos Báguena Perez-Crespo and Cristina Tomás Jiménez, Infectious Disease Unit, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Murcia, Spain; Natalia Sancho-Rodríguez, Laboratory Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Murcia, Spain; Pascual Piñera-Salmerón, Emergency Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Murcia, Spain.

Cristina Jimenez Bolado, Hilda Fernández Ovalle, Eugenio Azpeleta, Emergency Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain; Leonor Nogales Martín, Intensive Care Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain; Wysalli Trapiello Fernández, Medicine Laboratory Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid.

Maria Stella Lia, Loreta D’Amico, Annarita Cococcia, Unit of Laboratory Medicine, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy; Sofia Gosti, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.