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  • Open Forum Infect Dis . The Course of Mild and Moderate COVID-19 Infections-The Unexpected Long-Lasting Challenge


    Open Forum Infect Dis


    . 2020 Jul 23;7(9):ofaa286.
    doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa286. eCollection 2020 Sep.
    The Course of Mild and Moderate COVID-19 Infections-The Unexpected Long-Lasting Challenge


    Lu Xia 1 , Jun Chen 1 , Thomas Friedemann 2 , Zongguo Yang 1 , Yun Ling 1 , Xuhui Liu 1 , Shuihua Lu 1 , Tao Li 1 , Zhigang Song 1 , Wei Huang 1 , Yunfei Lu 1 , Sven Schr?der 2 , Hongzhou Lu 1



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    Abstract

    Background: The course of disease in mild and moderate COVID-19 has many implications for mobile patients, such as the risk of spread of the infection, precautions taken, and investigations targeted at preventing transmission.
    Methods: Three hundred thirty-one adults were hospitalized from January 21 to February 22, 2020, and classified as severe (10%) or critical (4.8%) cases; 1.5% died. Two hundred eighty-two (85.2%) mild or moderate cases were admitted to regular wards. Epidemiological, demographic, clinical, chest computed tomography (CT) scan, laboratory, treatment, and outcome data from patient records were analyzed retrospectively.
    Results: Patients were symptomatic for 9.82?5.75 (1-37) days. Pulmonary involvement was demonstrated on a chest CT scan in 97.9% of cases. It took 16.81?8.54 (3-49) days from the appearance of the first symptom until 274 patients tested virus-negative in naso- and oropharyngeal (NP) swabs, blood, urine, and stool, and 234 (83%) patients were asymptomatic for 9.09?7.82 (1-44) days. Subsequently, 131 patients were discharged. One hundred sixty-nine remained in the hospital; these patients tested virus-free and were clinically asymptomatic because of widespread persisting or increasing pulmonary infiltrates. Hospitalization took 16.24?7.57 (2-47) days; the time interval from the first symptom to discharge was 21.37?7.85 (3-52) days.
    Conclusions: With an asymptomatic phase, disease courses are unexpectedly long until the stage of virus negativity. NP swabs are not reliable in the later stages of COVID-19. Pneumonia outlasts virus-positive tests if sputum is not acquired. Imminent pulmonary fibrosis in high-risk groups demands follow-up examinations. Investigation of promising antiviral agents should heed the specific needs of mild and moderate COVID-19 patients.

    Keywords: Cohort study; Shufeng Jiedu; coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); lopinavir/ritonavir; umifenovir.

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