“…Unfortunately, as was also pointed out in our article, the information and variables that were included in the study were those that were found in the medical records, therefore, we were not able to include other variables that may have contributed to explain the association. Besides, although these variables could be other respiratory parameters as the authors pointed out, the increase of TS is associated with increased mortality, disease severity and can predict hospital stay and the need for intubation of infected patients 1 . Thus, we consider that this variable could be relevant for our research, in which we sought to estimate, in an exploratory manner, an association of interest.…”