The overall COVID-19 infections in China have entered a low prevalence level since mid-May, and the vast majority of COVID-19 patients show mild symptoms, medical experts said. Despite a recent increase, the total amount of fever clinic patients is far less than that during the peak of th...
BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhua) -- The overall COVID-19 infections in China have entered a low prevalence level since mid-May, and the vast majority of COVID-19 patients show mild symptoms, medical experts said. Despite a recent increase, the total amount of fever clinic patients is far less t...
For instance, data reported in January 2020 from Wuhan, China, showed that, among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, 1%–2% had concomitant cancer diagnoses. This was higher than the overall incidence of cancer in the general Chinese population (0.29%) (Liang et al., 2020). As ...
The following articles appeared in the print edition ofInfectious Disease News. Table of Contents
The following articles appeared in the print edition ofInfectious Disease News. Table of Contents
The whole world is now facing the battle against the severe and dangerous pandemic COVID-19, which is not only physically harming, but also mentally disturbing because of the unceasingly escalating number of affected patients and deaths globally. In India, the containment strategies constitute in id...
(CDC) estimated a 2–14 day range], with the shortest being 1 day and the vast majority within 2 weeks. A proportion of infected subjects may remain asymptomatic. Fever, cough, and shortness of breath were the first typical symptoms of COVID-19 pneumonia initially highlighted by CDC, and...
COVID-19 clinical symptoms included fever, myalgia, fatigue, dry cough, sore throat, diarrhea,5,6and loss of taste;7symptoms appear about 5.2 days after infection.8Most clinical presentations are asymptomatic or mild; less than 5% develop multi-organ failure or acute respiratory distress sy...
33. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Overview of testing for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), 2020https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html 34. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: COVID-19 Update: FDA authorizes first diagnostic test where results can be read ...
Since last summer, dozens of states, alongside the federal agencies, have opted to scale back on regular COVID-19 data reporting.