Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be classified into the category of warm diseases in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and outthrusting method is an important therapeutic method in treating warm diseases. Based on ancient and modern literatures of TCM, COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment programs issued by National Health Commission of the People`s Republic of China and various provincial and municipal health commissions were analysed. It was believed that the outthrusting method should be applied throughout the whole treatment course of COVID-19. Outthrusting method can be widely applied to the treatment of COVID-19 patients at different stages and with different clinical types when combined with other TCM therapeutic methods properly.