{"id":3941,"date":"2020-01-29T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:19:07","slug":"epidemiological-and-clinical-characteristics-of-99-cases-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-pneumonia-in-wuhan-china-a-descriptive-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/29\/epidemiological-and-clinical-characteristics-of-99-cases-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-pneumonia-in-wuhan-china-a-descriptive-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All 99 cases identified from Jan 1 \u2013 Jan 20, 2020 at a single Wuhan hospital confirmed by RT-PCR are described. Patients who died aligned with the MuLBSTA score for predicting mortality in viral pneumonia.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">49% had exposure to the Huanan seafood market<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">51% had chronic diseases\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinical manifestations: fever (83%), cough (82%), shortness of breath (31%), muscle ache (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">11%)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and confusion, headache, sore throat, rhinorrhea, chest pain, diarrhea, and nausea\/vomiting all less than 10%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">75% had bilateral pneumonia, 14% had multiple mottling and ground glass opacity, one patient had pneumothorax.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">17 patients (17%) developed acute respiratory distress syndrome.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">11 of these died of multiple organ failure.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chen et al. (Jan 29, 2020). Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. The Lancet. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/marlin-prod.literatumonline.com\/pb-assets\/Lancet\/pdfs\/S0140673620302117.pdf\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/marlin-prod.literatumonline.com\/pb-assets\/Lancet\/pdfs\/S0140673620302117.pdf<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 99 cases identified from Jan 1 \u2013 Jan 20, 2020 at a single Wuhan hospital confirmed by RT-PCR are described. Patients who died aligned with the MuLBSTA score for predicting mortality in viral pneumonia.\u00a0 49% had exposure to the Huanan seafood market 51% had chronic diseases\u00a0 Clinical manifestations: fever (83%), cough (82%), shortness of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/29\/epidemiological-and-clinical-characteristics-of-99-cases-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-pneumonia-in-wuhan-china-a-descriptive-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}