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Response to ‘Correspondence on ‘Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the disease course of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases: results from the Swiss Clinical Quality Management cohort’ by Ruyssen-Witrand et al
  1. Adrian Ciurea1,
  2. Axel Finckh2
  1. 1 Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  2. 2 Division of Rheumatology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneve, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Professor Adrian Ciurea, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; adrian.ciurea{at}usz.ch

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We would like to thank Ruyssen-Witrand et al for their interest in our study1 and their data from French patients with rheumatoid arthritis collected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic through an online survey.2 Despite the fact that up to 70% of medical consultations could not be performed as …

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  • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

  • Contributors AC and AF wrote the manuscript and approved the final version.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests AC reports personal fees from AbbVie, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis and Pfizer, outside the submitted work.

  • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

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