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Inter-relationship between COVID-19 and rheumatic diseases is an interesting topic in clinical rheumatology. We found that article ‘Clinical course of COVID-19 in a series of patients with chronic arthritis treated with immunosuppressive targeted therapies’ is informative. Monti et al suggested for ‘avoiding the unjustifiable preventive withdrawal of DMARDs, which could lead to an increased risk of relapses and morbidity from the chronic rheumatological condition’. 1 Whether standard therapy for rheumatic diseases have any effect on …
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Contributors BJ and VW equally contributed to the work and approved for final submission.
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