Lymphopenia predicts disease severity of COVID-19: a descriptive and predictive study

Li Tan1, Li Wang1, Duanyang Zhang1, Jinya Ding2, Qianchuan Huang2, Yi‐Quan Tang3, Qiongshu Wang1, Hongming Miao4
1Department of Disease Control and Prevention, General Hospital of Central Theater Command, 430015, Wuhan, Hubei province, People's Republic of China
2Department of Laboratory, General Hospital of Central Theater Command, 430015, Wuhan, Hubei province, People's Republic of China
3MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), 400038, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

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