Patients with mild and general COVID-19 should be negative for at least 3 consecutive nucleic acid tests before discharged

• Rui Lu,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Wuhan Third Hospital, Tongren Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China

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• Tianhui Huang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan Third Hospital, Tongren Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China

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• Haiqing Hu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Wuhan Third Hospital, Tongren Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China

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• Xiao-Ping Liu

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liuxiaoping@whu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Wuhan Third Hospital, Tongren Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China, Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6179-0964

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