Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and COVID-19: Data by summer 2020, approaches to health care and prevention

The article provides general information about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the role of respiratory viral infections in exacerbation of COPD, aspects of the course of COVID-19 in patients with this pathology. Based on the results of studies obtained by the beginning of summer 2020, the opinions of individual experts and the expert community, approaches to the management of patients with COPD during the current pandemic are briefly described, including outpatient medical care and prevention of COVID-19. According to the preliminary results of the first wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic, COPD is a very serious factor in the poor prognosis in COVID-19