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Characteristics of COVID-19 infection in Beijing.

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The measures to prevent transmission was very successful at early stage, the next steps on the COVID-19 infection should be focused on early isolation of patients and quarantine for close contacts in families and communities in Beijing.
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This article is published in Journal of Infection.The article was published on 2020-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 944 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Case fatality rate & Population.

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Risk factors of critical & mortal COVID-19 cases: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Clinical manifestations such as fever, shortness of breath or dyspnea were associated with the progression of disease, and laboratory examination such as aspartate amino transferase(AST) > 40U/L, creatinine(Cr) ≥ 133mol/l, hypersensitive cardiac troponin I(hs-cTnI) > 28pg/mL, procalcitonin(PCT) > 0.5mg/L predicted the deterioration of disease.
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Does comorbidity increase the risk of patients with COVID-19: evidence from meta-analysis.

TL;DR: The meta-analysis revealed no correlation between increased risk of COVID-19 and liver disease, malignancy, or renal disease and Hypertension, diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease are major risk factors for patients with CO VID-19.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

TL;DR: This is the first systematic review that assesses and summarizes clinical features and management of children with SARS-CoV-2 infection and concludes that Bronchial thickening and ground-glass opacities were the main radiologic features in asymptomatic patients.
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COVID-19: Abnormal liver function tests.

TL;DR: A high prevalence of liver test abnormalities and liver injury was observed in 417 patients with COVID-19 admitted to the only referral hospital in Shenzhen, China and the prevalence increased substantially during hospitalization.
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

TL;DR: Characteristics of patients who died were in line with the MuLBSTA score, an early warning model for predicting mortality in viral pneumonia, and further investigation is needed to explore the applicability of the Mu LBSTA scores in predicting the risk of mortality in 2019-nCoV infection.
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