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+# 🛑 Note: please do not claim diagnostic performance of a model without a clinical study! This is not a kaggle competition dataset. 
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 ## COVID-19 image data collection
 
 We are building a database of COVID-19 cases with chest X-ray or CT images. We are looking for COVID-19 cases as well as [MERS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome), [SARS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome), and [ARDS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_respiratory_distress_syndrome).