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cord-346115-xilbhy37	Gattinoni, Luciano	COVID-19: scientific reasoning, pragmatism and emotional bias	2020-10-12		.txt	text/plain	1106	65	52	Yet, we should not be criticized when we suggest that Tobin and co-authors had expressed views that premature intubation in this COVID context is "fatal". For example, recently in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, we can find: "the surest way to increase COVID-19 mortality is the liberal use of intubation and mechanical ventilation" [3] . However, the contention that mechanical ventilation is "the surest way to increase COVID-19 mortality" -is not supported by clinical data and therefore, once again such a statement is yet to be proved or disproved. say "Patients with acute severe asthma develop large pleural Open Access *Correspondence: gattinoniluciano@gmail.com 1 Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Full list of author information is available at the end of the article pressure swings, yet autopsy studies in patients dying because of status asthmaticus are remarkable for the absence of pulmonary edema" [1] .	./cache/cord-346115-xilbhy37.txt	./txt/cord-346115-xilbhy37.txt