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We thank all medical staff and medical data managers for data extraction and help for analysis. We would like to thank Prof. Eric H. Xu at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for his useful suggestion and language improvement in writing this paper. This work was supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2020YFC0844500), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31130031), Emergency Project Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020YJFK0105), and Chinese Academy of Engineering and Ma Yun Foundation (2020-CMKYGG-05).
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Yu, B., Li, C., Chen, P. et al. Beneficial effects exerted by hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients via protecting multiple organs. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 330–333 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1782-1
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