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The predict current pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is of major concern and currently there is no means to reliably the severity of COVID-19 symptoms (or the course of COVID-19) in individuals infected by SARS-CoV- 2. We have assembled a team with expertise in metabolomics, virology, pulmonary and infectious disease, advanced modeling strategies (machine-learning) and immunology, and propose to identify alterations in the metabolome of patients from Yale New Haven hospital that are stored at the IMPACT Biorepository. Such analyses will be pivotal in allowing the prediction of the COVID-19 severity and also provide mechanistic information about the disease and its progression.
