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Open Access 01-12-2020 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor

Lower mortality of COVID-19 by early recognition and intervention: experience from Jiangsu Province

Authors: Qin Sun, Haibo Qiu, Mao Huang, Yi Yang

Published in: Annals of Intensive Care | Issue 1/2020

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A cluster of patients of novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) have been identified in Wuhan in December 2019 and soon this virus spread at a tremendous rate which swept through the whole China and more than 93 countries and regions around the world [1, 2]. This emerging, rapidly evolving situation has threatened the health of all mankind and WHO has raised COVID-19 risk to “very high” at global level. …

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Title: Lower mortality of COVID-19 by early recognition and intervention: experience from Jiangsu Province
Authors: Qin Sun
Haibo Qiu
Mao Huang
Yi Yang
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keyword: COVID-19
Published in: Annals of Intensive Care / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 2110-5820
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-020-00650-2

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