Quarantine at home may not enough!-from the epidemiological data in Shaanxi Province of China

  • Lei Shi
  • , Qian Li
  • , Kang Li
  • , Jie Zheng
  • , Yingli He
  • , Xi Zhang
  • , Xianfeng Gong
  • , Wei Wang
  • , Qing Zhang
  • , Chao Dai
  • , Wenxuan Zhao
  • , Xuefei Meng
  • , Feng Du
  • , Pei Fan
  • , Chunyan Li
  • , Chunyan Gao
  • , Yuan Yang
  • , Xiaojing Liu
  • , Yunru Chen
  • , Jinfeng Liu
  • Jianzhou Li, Nan Yang, Yinghua Niu, Hongmei Chen, Guoyu Zhang, Taotao Yan, Li Zhu, Qunying Han, Wanhu Fan, Feng Ye, Zhengwen Liu, Shumei Lin, Yingren Zhao, Tianyan Chen

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Abstract

Objectives: A pneumonia associated with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, subsequently named SARS-CoV2) emerged worldwide since December, 2019. We aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Shaanxi province of China. Results: 1. Among the 245 patients, 132 (53.9%) were males and 113 (46.1%) were females. The average age was 46.15 ± 16.43 years, ranging from 3 to 89 years. 2. For the clinical type, 1.63% (4/245) patients were mild type, 84.90% (208/245) were moderate type, 7.76% (19/245) were severe type, 5.31% (13/245) were critical type and only 0.41% (1/245) was asymptomatic. 3. Of the 245 patients, 116 (47.35%) were input case, 114 (46.53%) were non-input case, and 15 (6.12%) were unknown exposure. 4. 48.57% (119/245) cases were family cluster, involving 42 families. The most common pattern of COVID-19 family cluster was between husband and wife or between parents and children.

Original languageEnglish
Article number506
JournalBMC Research Notes
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Epidemiological features
  • Family cluster
  • SARS-CoV2

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