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1 Dear Editor, The COVID-19 pandemic began in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and spread over the world, swiftly becoming an alarming international outbreak. Following the first case detected on 11 March 2020 in Turkey, the outbreak caused a national emergency as well. Due to the novelty of this public health issue, the Turkish Thoracic Society Early Career Members Taskforce Group’s (TTS ECMTG) contribution was requested throughout the pandemic in order to keep the society updated, based on reliable scientific publications. Also, some databases, including COVID-19 resources, have been universally accessible to all scientists to maximize knowledge sharing. Since there is a need for rapid information to shed light on the unknowns about COVID-19, an enormous amount of publications was produced in such a short time, especially in the first couple of months of the pandemic1. Therefore, any new scientific finding was open to modification and falsification. This meant that our knowledge was continuously changing during the pandemic period, and it has been challenging for the physicians to stay updated on a substantial number of new publications. Besides, it brought out a significant concern for clinicians, which was to critically evaluate multiple research results and decide which ones would guide their clinical approach. ECMTG thus decided to share, with members of TTS and other Turkish clinicians, brief summaries of the most reliable recent literature to ensure access to robust scientific knowledge, and to keep all physicians informed and updated regarding the new publications. The TTS ECMTG aimed to evaluate the scientific publications rigorously, avoiding disinformation, and to summarize reliable information for all members of TTS working in the field and fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic. This letter aims to give a perspective of our group’s effort, as an example of dedicated teamwork at the time of a pandemic. The TTS ECMTG was established in September 2019 and aimed for future national and international collaborations. By the time of the pandemic, the group had 75 members under the age of 40 years, mostly consisting of pulmonologists. Although this group was established recently, collaborative teamwork has been demonstrated by its members, even from the beginning of the pandemic. It was expected that ECMTG members would contribute to teamwork actively. In this period, when the pandemic had reached a peak, reliable and easily accessible resources were needed to inform other pulmonologists and clinicians. AFFILIATION 1 Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey 2 Department of Paediatric Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey 3 Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 4 Department of Chest Diseases, Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 5 Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ufuk University, Ankara, Turkey 6 Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Kütahya University of Health Sciences, Kutahya, Turkey 7 Department of Occupational Health and Diseases, Adana City Research and Training Hospital, Adana, Turkey 8 Internal Medicine Intensive Care Unit, Dursun Odabas Medical Center, Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey 9 Department of Paediatric Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey 10 Department of Chest Diseases, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 11 Department of Occupational Health and Diseases, Ankara Occupational and Environmental Diseases Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 12 Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

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An example of national scientific collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Turkish Thoracic Society Early Career Members Taskforce Group’s contribution to accessing reliable scientific knowledge