Eosinopenia and COVID-19 patients: So specific ?

Andreozzi, Fabio;Hermans, Cédric;Yombi, Jean Cyr
(2020) EClinicalMedicine — Vol. 24, p. 100439 [1-2] (2020)

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To The Editor, During the COVID-19 pandemic, eosinopenia was described by Li et al. as a hallmark of this infection in patients presenting with fever [1]. For the prediction of positive SARS-CoV-2 cases (diagnosis based on RT-PCR), eosinopenia has a sensitivity of 74.7% and specificity of 68.7% with the area under the curve AUC of 0.717. The combination of eosinopenia and raised hs-CRP yielded a sensitivity of 67·9% and specificity of 78·2% (AUC = 0·730). [...]
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Andreozzi, F., Hermans, C., & Yombi, J. C. (2020). Eosinopenia and COVID-19 patients: So specific ? EClinicalMedicine, 24, 100439 [1-2]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100439 (Original work published 2020)