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

Dear Editor, An outbreak of an unknown infectious pneumonia has recently occurred in Wuhan, China.1 The pathogen of the disease was quickly identified as a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), and the disease was named coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).2 The virus has so far caused 78,959 confirmed cases and 2791 deaths in China according to the reports of government. COVID-19 has been spreading in...