title: Infectious and Tropical Diseases: A Handbook for Primary Care
author: Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett
description: Carrie Kovarik is a physician at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California.
zlib_text: The Lancet
   
  Clinical characteristics of 55 cases of deaths with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan,
  China: retrospective case series
  --Manuscript Draft--
   
  Manuscript Number:
  THELANCET-D-20-02831
  Article Type:
  FT to NT Article (INTERNAL USE ONLY)
  Keywords:
  novel coronavirus disease;  outbreak;  COVID-19;
  pneumonia；death；epidemiological  characteristics ； clinical  characteristics
  Corresponding Author:
  Tao Yao, MD
  CHINA
  First Author:
  Tao Yao, MD
  Order of Authors:
  Tao Yao, MD
  Yan Gao, MD
  Qin Cui, MD
  Jing Shen
  Bo Peng, MD
  Yan Chen, MD
  Jiansheng Li, MD
  Chao Huang, MD
  Chunping He, MD
  Jie Pu, MD
  Jiajun Wei, MD
  Yanqiang Zhan, MD
  Jie Yan, MD
  Jinghua Tian:, MD
  Zhichao Liu, MD
  Manuscript Region of Origin:
  CHINA
  Abstract:
  Background With the widespread outbreak of (novel coronavirus disease 2019 )
  COVID-19, more and more death cases were reported, however, limited data are
  available for the patients who died. We aimed to explore the epidemiological and
  clinical characteristics of deaths with COVID-19 p