n with other upper respiratory infections. Compared to expert evaluation of the images, the neural network achieved upwards of 99% specificity, showing promise for the automated detection of COVID-19 infection in clinical settings.

Introduction
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a highly infectious disease with the basic reproductive number (R0) of 5.7 (reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), is caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus1 and