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cord-267971-xgwmda8e	Tan, Shing Cheng	Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients	2020-04-07		.txt	text/plain	2851	204	57	Background: Numerous groups have reported the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases; however, the data remained inconsistent. Understanding the clinical and 46 epidemiological characteristics of the disease is important for informing public health decision 47 making, which would enable improvement of surveillance and effective planning of treatment. (4) found that the male-to-female ratio among the 81 patients included 56 was close to 1:1, indicating that both genders were equally susceptible to 57 the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic and the 58 contagion shows no sign of slowing down (13). In this 60 study, a systematic review and pooled analysis was performed to characterize the clinical and 61 epidemiological features of COVID-19 patients. In this work, a systematic review and pooled analysis was 137 performed to combine data from 69 previous reports, in order to yield a more accurate summary 138 of the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 patients.	./cache/cord-267971-xgwmda8e.txt	./txt/cord-267971-xgwmda8e.txt