Iodine increases pulmonary type I interferon responses and decreases covid-19 disease severity: Results from an open label randomized clinical trial

• René Traksel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: René Traksel, Jasper Broen, Laura van Eyndhoven, Richard Verheesen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: r.traksel@mmc.nl

  Affiliation Regional Rheumatology Center, Maxima Medical Center Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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• Jasper Broen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: René Traksel, Jasper Broen, Laura van Eyndhoven, Richard Verheesen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Regional Rheumatology Center, Maxima Medical Center Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4344-3157

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• Arjen van Henten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Pulmonary medicine, Maxima Medical Center Veldhoven, The Netherlands

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• Marc Königs,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Intensive care medicine, Maxima Medical Center Veldhoven, The Netherlands

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• Arjun Raj,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Laura van Eyndhoven ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: René Traksel, Jasper Broen, Laura van Eyndhoven, Richard Verheesen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-1134

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• Richard Verheesen

  Contributed equally to this work with: René Traksel, Jasper Broen, Laura van Eyndhoven, Richard Verheesen

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Regional Rheumatology Center, Maxima Medical Center Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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