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Response to: ‘COVID-19 in paediatric rheumatology patients treated with b/tsDMARDs: a cross-sectional patient survey study’ by Cuceoglu et al
  1. Carlo Salvarani1,2,
  2. Gianluigi Bajocchi1,
  3. Pamela Mancuso3,
  4. Elena Galli2,
  5. Francesco Muratore1,
  6. Paolo Giorgi Rossi3
  1. 1 Unit of Rheumatology, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  2. 2 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
  3. 3 Interinstitutional Epidemiology Unit, Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Professor Carlo Salvarani, Unit of Rheumatology, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia 42100, Italy; carlo.salvarani{at}ausl.re.it

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We appreciated the comment from Cuceoglu et al 1 in response to our paper on the susceptibility and severity of COVID-19 in a population-based cohort of patients treated with biological and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs).2 We did not observe patients with COVID-19 <45 years in our cohort of 1195 cases with autoimmune diseases treated with b/tsDMARDs in Reggio Emilia area. Confirming our results, the authors did not observe cases of COVID-19 in a series of 173 Turkish paediatric patients with rheumatological …

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