Wei-Jie Guan, Zheng-Yi Ni, Yu Hu, Wen-Hua Liang, Chun-Quan Ou, Jian-Xing He, Lei Liu, Hong Shan, Chun-Liang Lei, David S C Hui, Bin Du, Lan-Juan Li, Guang Zeng, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Ru-Chong Chen, Chun-Li Tang, Tao Wang, Ping-Yan Chen, Jie Xiang, Shi-Yue Li, Jin-Lin Wang, Zi-Jing Liang, Yi-Xiang Peng, Li Wei, Yong Liu, Ya-Hua Hu, Peng Peng, Jian-Ming Wang, Ji-Yang Liu, Zhong Chen, Gang Li, Zhi-Jian Zheng, Shao-Qin Qiu, Jie Luo, Chang-Jiang Ye, Shao-Yong Zhu, Nan-Shan Zhong
BACKGROUND: Since December 2019, when coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China, data have been needed on the clinical characteristics of the affected patients. METHODS: We extracted data regarding 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 from 552 hospitals in 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in mainland China through January 29, 2020. The primary composite end point was admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), the use of mechanical ventilation, or death...
April 30, 2020: New England Journal of Medicine