Tumor biomarkers predict clinical outcome of COVID-19 patients

A recent article in  Journal of Infection by Fu and colleagues have summarized the clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, and described that those with medical comorbidities tend to have more severe clinical symptoms and higher case-fatality rate, according to data of 43 studies inv olving 3600 patients.1 Of the data from China, 81% cases were mild, 14% were severe, and 5% were critical, and the case-fatality rate was 2.3% in all cases and 49.0% in critical cases.

Source: Journal of Infection - June 2, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Bangshun He, Aifang Zhong, Qiuyue Wu, Xiong Liu, Jie Lin, Chao Chen, Yiming He, Yanju Guo, Man Zhang, Peiran Zhu, Jian Wu, Changjun Wang, Shukui Wang, Xinyi Xia Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research