Mei Jiang

TL;DR: The proposed nomogram accurately predict clinical outcomes of patients with COVID-19 based on individual characteristics and has sufficient discriminatory power with the C-index of 0.91.

TL;DR: Hematologic and immunologic impairment showed a significantly different profile between survivors and non-survivors in COVID-19 patients with different severity, and a multivariate Cox regression model suggested that restored levels of lymphocytes, eosinophils and platelets could serve as the predictors for the recovery, while progressive increases in neutrophils, basophil and IL-6 were associated with fatal outcome.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the epidemiological, viral, and clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients infected with the Delta variant of concern (VOC), also known as lineage B. The whole chain of the Delta VOC transmission was described and compared with a cohort of wild-type infection in 2020 admitted to the Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital.

TL;DR: Cough is the most common symptom in respiratory specialist clinics of tertiary hospitals and outpatient clinics of primary health care facilities in China and is often misdiagnosed as chronic bronchitis or chronic pharyngitis.

TL;DR: This study established new reference values for better interpretation of spirometry in Chinese aged 4 to 80 years, while Caucasian references with adjustment were inappropriate for Chinese.