The clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients with pneumonia in family clusters

The clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients with pneumonia in family clustersGuangchuan Dai1*, Yating Gao2*, Likun Zhou3,4*, Zhen Zhou3*, Weiwei Gao1, XiangrongZhang1, Tingqiu Ge1, Yi zeng1#, Xia Zhang1#, Yongxiang Yi1#1Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, The Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing Municipal Public Health Medical Center, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210003, P.R. China2Graduate School, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, Anhui 230012, P.R. China3Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Center of Molecular Diagnostic and Therapy, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, NJU Advanced Institute of Life Sciences (NAILS), NJU Institute of AI Biomedicine and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P.R. China4Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin 300060, P.R. China*These authors contributed equally# Correspondence: Yi Zeng(960559051@qq.com) or Xia Zhang(zhangxia365@sina.com) or Yongxiang Yi (ian0216@yeah.net)Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, The Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing Municipal Public Health Medical Center, No.1, Kangfu Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China.Tel:+86-025-85091652Keywords: COVID-19 ; clinical characteristics ; family clusters