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. 2020 Jul 14;92(9):1433. doi: 10.1002/jmv.25924

Response to Char's comment: Comment on Li et al: COVID‐19 patients' clinical characteristics, discharge rate, and fatality rate of meta‐analysis

Long‐quan Li 1,2,3, Tian Huang 1,2,3, Yong‐qing Wang 4, Zheng‐ping Wang 5, Yuan Liang 1,2,3, Tao‐bi Huang 1,2,3, Hui‐yun Zhang 1,2,3, Wei‐ming Sun 6, Yu‐ping Wang 2,3,
PMCID: PMC7264725  PMID: 32320084

To the Editor,

We have read Leung's comment. 1 Thanks for readers' attention and valuable feedback on our article. 2 Following was our response to Leung's question about data overlap.

First, the meta‐analysis reprocessed the existing data about patients with COVID‐19 in published articles and involved no other information outside of the article.

Second, each patients' regions, hospitals, departments, time periods of when they hospitalized, and other detailed information can be precisely distinguished only when the original data were obtained. Thus, whether data overlap existed was still uncertain. We contacted the corresponding authors to obtain the original data, but we have not received a reply yet.

Finally, we agree that readers are advised to interpret the results with caution. When we acquire original data, we will reprocess data to make sure if data overlap existed and if necessarily, we will provide the finally revision of our study publicly.

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

All the authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

Funding Information Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, Grant/Award Number: 18JR3RA366

Long‐quan Li, Tian Huang, and Yong‐qing Wang contributed equally to this work.

REFERENCES

  • 1. Leung C. Comment on Li et al: COVID‐19 patients' clinical characteristics, discharge rate, and fatality rate of meta‐analysis [published online ahead of print April 21, 2020]. J Med Virol. 10.1002/jmv.25912 [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
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