Acknowledgments
Patricia Manga Favaretto, Maria Cristina Coelho de Nadai, Vivian RB Saboya and other members of the Executive Board of the Medical Research Laboratories of HCFMUSP: general organization of data collection during the multidisciplinary longitudinal assessment and logistics for the organization of the inpatient database; infrastructure for the initial organization of the COVID-19 Biobank; and general financial management
Vilson Cobello Junior & Gisele Pereira (NETI-HCFMUSP)
Infrastructure and logistic support of the HCFMUSP COVID-19 task force both during hospitalizations and during the planning and data collection period of the multidisciplinary longitudinal assessment: Engineer Antonio José Pereira & Elizabeth de Faria (Superintendence of HCFMUSP), Rosemeire K Hangai, Danielle P Moraes, Renato Madrid Baldassare, Lucila Pedroso, Marcelo CA Ramos and Taciano Varro
Katia Regina da Silva and members of the REDCap Brazil team
Support from the administrative staff of the Tropical Medicine Institute to the COVID-19 Biobank: Maria Cássia Jacintho Mendes Corrêa, Andrés Jimenez Galisteo Jr. and Lea Campos de Oliveira
Support from the Central Laboratory Division staff for the COVID-19 Biobank: Luciane de Carvalho Sarahyba da Silva, Patricia Azevedo Soares Cordeiro
Adriana Ladeira de Araujo: full-time post-doctoral fellow in the institutional initiatives described here until December 2021
Izabel Marcilio (Center for Epidemiological Surveillance) and Nelson Gouveia (Department of Preventive Medicine)
Eidi Abdalla and Rosa Maria Fischi (FMUSP's Library)
Assistance in the preparation of proposals for external funding: Marina Caldeira, Paulo Saldiva, Irene Noronha, Thais Mauad, Emmanuel Burdmann, Jorge Hallak
Allocation of staff and equipment for the COVID Biobank in 2020: Clinical Emergencies Research Laboratory (LIM 51), Renal Pathophysiology Research Laboratory (LIM 16) and Nuclear Medicine Research Laboratory (LIM 43)
Marina Siqueira (preceptor at the Center for Development of Medical Education - CEDEM) and the team of FMUSP students supervised by her in the task of obtaining informed consent for donation of blood samples to the Biobank during hospitalizations at HCFMUSP
FMUSP Board of Directors, and HCFMUSP Clinical Board & Deliberative Board