Ethics approval and consent to participate
This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Review Committee of Zhoushan Hospital, Zhoushan, China, and the study was conducted according to the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. All participants provided a signed written informed consent.
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Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials
The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article have been deposited in the NCBI database under the accession no SRP392877 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA869866) and will be made available by the authors upon request.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest associated with this study.
Funding
This work was financially supported by COVID-19 Prevention and Control Technology Project of Zhoushan, Zhejiang province (2020C31001, 2020C31003).
Authors' contributions
NN-W and GQ-Z participated in collecting and analyzing the data and drafting and revising the manuscript. TX-Z, Y-W, and HF-L participated in collection of clinical samples and data analysis. HX-L, ZJ-Y, ZE-Z, QJ-W, and MF-H participated in collection of clinical samples and revising the manuscript. ZB-L and SB-L participated in design of this study and manuscript revision. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
We thank all of the generous volunteer subjects who enrolled in this study. In addition, we thank all of the clinical doctors from Zhoushan Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University in China who participated in fighting COVID-19. Finally, we thank LetPub (www.letpub.com) for its linguistic assistance.
Authors' information
Department of Infectious Disease, Zhoushan Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Zhoushan, 316021, China: Guangqi Zhu, Yan Wang, Haifei Lou, Zhejuan Yang, Zheen Zhang, Qiujing Wang, Mingfang Han, Shibo Li
Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention of Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China: Nana Wei
Department of Infectious Disease, Zhejiang University Zhoushan Hospital, Zhoushan 316021, China: Tingxiao Zhao
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China: Zhibing Lin
Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, 325060, China: Haoxuan Li
Correspondence to Shibo Li and Zhibing Lin.
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