Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to
participate
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Union hospital Wuhan,
China. The informed consents of the participants were acquired.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Funding
This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of
China (NO.81873529) to W.W.
Acknowledgements The authors deeply thank all colleagues working in Union Hospital for
supporting and collecting the valuable COVID-19 patients’ data.
Author contribution
C.C.: contributed to guarantor, literature search, manuscript editing,
manuscript preparation, interpretation of data, and study design. Y.G.:
contributed to design, interpretation of data, literature search,
manuscript preparation. Y.Y.: contributed to manuscript preparation,
interpretation of data, and manuscript review. F.C.: contributed to
manuscript preparation. M.X.: contributed to interpretation of data, and
manuscript review. Y.L.: contributed to study design and manuscript
review. W.W.: contributed to guarantor, literature search, manuscript
review, manuscript editing, manuscript preparation, interpretation of
data, and study design. All authors read and approved the final version
to be published.