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The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Haihong Fu.

Conflict of interest
This paper obtained the “certificate of authorization” for reprint of the content from “Expert consensus of radiological examination scheme and infection prevention of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (First version)” which was in Chinese and had been accepted by a Chinese journal “Electronic Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.”
The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any other companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.

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No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

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Methodology
• Multicenter study