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Abstract
The novel coronavirus infection broke out in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and progressed to a global pandemic. We describe the measures taken by West China Hospital of Sichuan University to address the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the infection.
- clinical management
- emergency care systems
- epidemiology
- infectious diseases, viral
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QZ and HY are joint first authors.
Handling editor Edward Carlton
QZ and HY contributed equally.
Contributors QZ and HY contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors. Z-AL is the corresponding author. Other authors had experience of resisting COVID-19 infection. ZQ and YH contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors Z-AL is the correspondence author of this review. Other authors have self-experience in resisting novel coronavirus infection.
Funding This work was supported by the Novel Coronavirus Emergency Projects of Sichuan Science and Technology Office (grant No 2020YFS0005, grant No 2020YFS0009).
Competing interests None declared.
Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.