Abstract
This manuscript has been retracted due to the identification of undeclared duplication of content, including Figure images, from a -previous publication by some of the authors: Wang C, Xie J, Zhao L, Fei X, Zhang H, Tan Y, Nie X, Zhou L, Liu Z, Ren Y, Yuan L, Zhang Y, Zhang J, Liang L, Chen X, Liu X, Wang P, Han X, Weng X, Chen Y, Yu T, Zhang X, Cai J, Chen R, Shi ZL, Bian XW. Alveolar macrophage dysfunction and cytokine storm in the pathogenesis of two severe COVID-19 patients. EBioMedicine. 2020; 57: 102833. All authors are requested to declare that manuscripts submitted to this journal are original. This journal makes clear that research fraud of any kind will not be tolerated and will result in immediate retraction.