“…The true incidence of PITS might be even higher as a number of post-COVID patients may not be referred for dyspnea/tracheal stenosis due to more debilitating COVID-related post-ICU sequelae. Other authors have also observed a similar increase in the incidence of these complications, which could either be attributed to the dramatic increase of intubated patients due to the pandemic or to other factors related to specific patients’ characteristics, to the disease itself, or ultimately to iatrogenic factors related with the hospitalization and the disease management under the current circumstances [ 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ].…”