id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-310691-6danlh8h Ma, Simin Clinical Characteristics of Critically Ill Patients Co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 and the Influenza Virus in Wuhan, China 2020-05-26 .txt text/plain 2297 149 57 title: Clinical Characteristics of Critically Ill Patients Co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 and the Influenza Virus in Wuhan, China Our results further confirmed that co-infection with the influenza virus may induce an earlier and more severe cytokine storm in critically ill COVID-19 patients, leading to serious complications such as shock, ARDS, fulminant myocarditis, acute kidney injure or multiple organ failure (Cao 2020; Ruan et al. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 and the influenza virus among critically ill COVID-19 patients. Co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 and the influenza virus may lead to a much earlier occurrence of the cytokine storm and organ damage in critically ill COVID-19 patients. The submission of manuscript entitled "Clinical Characteristics of Critically Ill Patients Co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 and the Influenza Virus in Wuhan, China" to "International Journal of Infectious Diseases" for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. ./cache/cord-310691-6danlh8h.txt ./txt/cord-310691-6danlh8h.txt