We recognize the crucial importance of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) and Short Period Incidence Study of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SPRINT-SARI) networks in developing and expanding the global Coronavirus Disease 2019 Critical Care Consortium (COVID-19– CCC). We thank the generous support we received from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization and the International Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Network. We owe Li Wenliang, MD from the Wuhan Central Hospital, an eternal debt of gratitude for reminding the world that doctors should never be censored during a pandemic. Finally, we acknowledge all members of the COVID-19–CCC and various collaborators.

Steering Committee

Gianluigi Li Bassi MD1,3, 4,5, 7, 8, PhD; Jacky Y. Suen BSc1, 2, PhD; Heidi J. Dalton MD, MCCM9; John Laffey, MA, MD10; Daniel Brodie, MD11; Eddy Fan, MD, PhD12; Antoni Torres, MD, PhD, FERS ATS Fellow4, 13 36 37; Davide Chiumello, MD14; Alyaa Elhazmi15; Carol Hodgson, PT, PhD16,31; Shingo Ichiba, MD17; Carlos Luna, MD18; Srinivas Murthy, MD19; Alistair Nichol, MD, PhD16, 21,31; Pauline Yeung Ng, MD22; Mark Ogino, MD23; Eva Marwali, MD, PhD35; Giacomo Grasselli MD33, 34, PhD; Robert Bartlett, MD25; Aidan Burrell, MBBS, PhD26,27; Muhammed Elhadi MBBCh38; Anna Motos39,40; Ferran Barbé MD, PhD41,42; Alberto Zanella MD33; and John F. Fraser MBChB, PhD, FRCP(Glas), FFARCSI, FRCA, FCICM1, 3, 5, 7, 8 on behalf of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium.

Affiliations

1. Critical Care Research Group, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

2. Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

3. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

4. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

5. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

6. School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

7. St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, UnitingCare Hospitals, Brisbane Australia

8. Wesley Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia

9. INOVA Fairfax Medical Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church VA, USA

10. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Galway University Hospitals, and School of Medicine, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

11. Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY, USA

12. Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

13. Servei de Pneumologia. Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

14. Ospedale San Paolo, Milan, Italy

15. Dr. Sulaiman Alhabib Medical Group—Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

16. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

17. Department of Clinical Engineering / Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital, Japan

18. División Neumonología, Hospital de Clínicas, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

19. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

20. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

21. University College Dublin-Clinical Research Centre at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin

22. Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

23. Nemours Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA

24. Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

25. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

26. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC), School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

27. Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

28. Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) and Centre for Healthcare Transformation, School of Public Health & Social Work, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

29. Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

30. ISARIC, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

31. Department of Physiotherapy, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

32. Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

33. Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

34. Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

35. National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia

36. Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

37. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

38. Faculty of Medicine, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya

39. Centro de Investigación Biomedica En Red—Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain.

40. Institut d'Investigacions August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

41. Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Dept, Hospital Universitari Aranu de Vilanova and Santa Maria; IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain.

42. Centro de Investigación Biomedica En Red—Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

43. School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia