CRP and COVID-19: From the existing reports, in addition to fever, fatigue, dry cough, and sputum production, COVID-19 patients also presented with shortness of breath, myalgia, gastrointestinal symptoms, lymphopenia, prolonged prothrombin time, elevated C-reactive protein, etc.[3,33,34] This meta-analysis focused only on the main outcome change (symptoms included fever, fatigue, dry cough, and sputum production) after intervention with TCM and Western medicine in COVID-19 patients.