Footnotes

• X @ESantoniRugiu

• Contributors I am the only author of the Editorial and wrote it. I was invited to write it by the Thorax Editorial Office.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests ES-R has received honoraria for lectures and advisory boards unrelated to the subject of the Editorial from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche and Takeda as well as research grants unrelated to the subject of the Editorial from Sanofi and Takeda. No research funding has been used for this Editorial.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer-reviewed.