Epidemiology and clinical course of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China

Background: Novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is prevalent around the world. We aimed to describe epidemiological features and clinical course in Shanghai. Methods: We retrospectively analysed 325 cases admitted at Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, between January 20 and February 29, 2020. Results: 47.4% (154/325) had visited Wuhan within 2 weeks of illness onset. 57.2% occurred in 67 clusters; 40% were situated within 53 family clusters. 83.7% developed fever during the disease course. Median times from onset to first medical care, hospitalization and negative detection of nucleic acid by nasopharyngeal swab were 1, 4 and 8 days. Patients with mild disease using glucocorticoid tended to have longer viral shedding in blood and feces. At admission, 69.8% presented with lymphopenia and 38.8% had elevated D-dimers. Pneumonia was identified in 97.5% (314/322) of cases by chest CT scan. Severe-critical patients were 8% with a median time from onset to critical disease of 10.5 days. Half required oxygen therapy and 7.1% high-flow nasal oxygen. The case fatality rate was 0.92% with median time from onset to death of 16 days. Conclusion: COVID-19 cases in Shanghai were imported. Rapid identification, and effective control measures helped to contain the outbreak and prevent community transmission.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Emerging microbes & infections - 9(2020), 1 vom: 04. Dez., Seite 1537-1545

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shen, Yinzhong [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Danfeng [VerfasserIn]
Ling, Yun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Zhiping [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuyi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Qingnian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Li [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Qin [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Lie [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Zhaoqin [VerfasserIn]
Song, Zhigang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Shenyang [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Yuxin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jianliang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xueyun [VerfasserIn]
Mendelsohn, Joshua B [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Tongyu [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Hongzhou [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Clinical characteristics
Clinical course
Epidemiology
Journal Article
Viral shedding

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Date Completed 14.07.2020

Date Revised 05.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/22221751.2020.1787103

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311518834