Lu, Qing-Bin
Zhang, Hai-Yang
Che, Tian-Le
Zhao, Han
Chen, Xi
Li, Rui
Jiang, Wan-Li
Zeng, Hao-Long
Zhang, Xiao-Ai
Long, Hui
Wang, Qiang
Wu, Ming-Qing
Ward, Michael P.
Chen, Yue
Zhang, Zhi-Jie
Yang, Yang
Fang, Li-Qun
Liu, Wei
Funding for this research was provided by:
China Mega-Project on Infectious Disease Prevention (2018ZX10201-001;2018ZX10713002;2018ZX10101003;2017ZX10103004)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81825019)
Article History
Received: 4 September 2020
Accepted: 14 May 2021
First Online: 26 May 2021
Declarations
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: In China, the National Health Commission of China waived written informed consent for outbreak investigations of notifiable infectious diseases because of the urgent need to collect epidemiological and clinical information. The six hospitals in Wuhan have removed all identifiable personal information from the data before any analysis. This study was approved by the institutional review board of the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology (Beijing, China).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.