March 12, 2020

2019 novel coronavirus patients’ clinical characteristics, discharge rate and fatality rate of meta-analysis

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

• Li et al summarize clinical data from 10 studies to describe the clinical symptoms, laboratory test data, and epidemiological characteristics of about 2,000 COVID-19 patients. The results of the meta-analysis showed that men accounted for 60% of COVID-19 patients, which was higher than women, and the case fatality was 7%.

Li et al. (Mar 12, 2020). 2019 novel coronavirus patients’ clinical characteristics, discharge rate and fatality rate of meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Virology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25757