Establishing Classifiers With Clinical Laboratory Indicators to Distinguish COVID-19 From Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Retrospective Cohort Study

Wanfa Dai   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Pei-Feng Ke   ^{2, 3 *} , MPH ;   Zhen-Zhen Li   ⁴ , BSc ;   Qi-Zhen Zhuang   ⁴ , BSc ;   Wei Huang   ¹ , MD ;   Yi Wang   ^{2, 4} , MPhil ;   Yujuan Xiong   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Xian-Zhang Huang   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Respiration, Gong An County People’s Hospital, Jingzhou, China

² Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

³ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Research on Emergency in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

⁴ Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

*these authors contributed equally