In March 2020, Arizona’s five extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) programs (Banner Health, HonorHealth, Dignity Health, Mayo Clinic, and Phoenix Children’s) came together to form the Arizona ECMO (COVID-19) Workgroup (ECMO Workgroup) to discuss ECMO eligibility criteria and transfer patterns on the Arizona Surge Line, a centralized public health initiative that facilitated all intersystem transfers of patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (1, 2). The Arizona Surge Line predominately processed

They arrived with great promise. It does not burn, it is not tobacco, it must be better. It feels like déjà vu. We have been there before with tobacco products promoted as conferring reduced harm—but did not—from filter cigarettes (the “advanced” Kent Micronite filter contained asbestos) to “low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes” (which were no less harmful). The latest in the chain of “reduced harm” products are electronic cigarettes. That they are 95% less harmful was claimed in 2014, on the basis of a

“.” Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 21(10), pp. 1365–1371 Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Stuart C. Sweet, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, MSC 8116-43-14, 660 South Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63110. E-mail: [email protected]. Supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant 3U01HL146002-04W1 (A.D.B.). The views expressed in this article are the authors and do not

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