Functional exhaustion of antiviral lymphocytes in COVID-19 patients
Meijuan Zheng, Yong Gao, Gang Wang, Guobin Song, Siyu Liu, Dandan Sun, Yuanhong Xu & Zhigang Tian
Cellular & Molecular Immunology (2020)
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China.1 It was named by the World Health Organization as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and is responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Up to 28 February 2020, 79,394 cases have been confirmed according to China’s National Health Commission. Outside China, the virus has spread rapidly to over 36 countries and territories.