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cord-333749-45v6b4tc	Xie, Guogang	The role of peripheral blood eosinophil counts in COVID‐19 patients	2020-06-20		.txt	text/plain	4001	238	55	We aimed to investigate the role of peripheral blood eosinophil (EOS) as a marker in the course of the virus infection to improve the efficiency of diagnosis and evaluation of COVID‐19 patients. In the process of diagnosing and treating COVID-19 patients, we found that peripheral blood eosinophils (EOS) significantly reduced among most patients regardless of the severity of the diseases at the early stage, which had not been reported in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) [5, 6] , or the other types of pneumonia. Our analysis of fever clinic patients with pneumonia found that EOS counts of peripheral blood in patients with COVID-19 were significantly reduced, which was further confirmed by the data in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Data analysis showed that decreased EOS counts were more common in COVID-19 patients than other types of pneumonia, and no significant difference was identified between severe and non-severe patients, which was also mentioned in patients from Wuhan [12, 13] or outside Wuhan [14] .	./cache/cord-333749-45v6b4tc.txt	./txt/cord-333749-45v6b4tc.txt