Studies have started among patients after discharge from hospital. We urgently need well-controlled studies among the majority of those infected who did not need hospitalisation in case we are only seeing the tip of the COVID iceberg.

Sarah L Caddy, Clinical Research Fellow in Viral Immunology and Veterinary Surgeon, University of Cambridge; Anne Moore, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork; Connor Bamford, Research Fellow, Virology, Queen's University Belfast; David Hunter, Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Oxford; Derek Gatherer, Lecturer, Lancaster University; Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, UCL, and Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UCL

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