Authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1316-4891Peter M George1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3067-7349Shaney L Barratt3,4, Robin Condliffe5, Sujal R Desai6, Anand Devaraj6, Ian Forrest7, Michael A Gibbons8, Nicholas Hart9, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7929-2119R Gisli Jenkins10, Danny F McAuley11, Brijesh V Patel12, Erica Thwaite13, Lisa G Spencer13 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented surge in hospitalised patients with viral pneumonia. The most severely affected patients are older men, individuals of black and Asian minority ethnicity and those […]