TY - JOUR T1 - COVID-19: opacification score is higher in the right lung and right lung involvement is a better predictor of ICU admission JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.02340-2020 VL - 56 IS - 6 SP - 2002340 AU - Deepak Nagra AU - Mark Russell AU - Mark Yates AU - James Galloway AU - Richard Barker AU - Sujal R. Desai AU - Sam Norton Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/56/6/2002340.abstract N2 - The global response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in a wealth of research. The accrual of data through electronic health records (EHR) facilitates the efficient interrogation of datasets. Indeed, many issues of relevance to the COVID-19 response have been explored in this way, the impact of ethnicity or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition on outcomes, to name but two [1, 2].In COVID-19 the right lung has higher degree of opacification on plain radiograph than the left lung. Right lung opacificiation is a stronger predictor for critical care admission and death. https://bit.ly/36dig2N ER -