Correction to: A multicenter randomized trial to assess the efficacy of CONvalescent plasma therapy in patients with Invasive COVID-19 and acute respiratory failure treated with mechanical ventilation: the CONFIDENT trial protocol (BMC Pulmonary Medicine, (2020), 20, 1, (317), 10.1186/s12890-020-01361-x)

Following publication of the original article [1], it was brought to the authors’ attention that sentences in the method section were not appropriate, due to an omission in the update of a prior version. Namely, the following sentences have been deleted in the corrected version. © 2021, The Author(s).