{"id":3957,"date":"2020-01-30T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:48:51","slug":"updated-understanding-of-the-outbreak-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-in-wuhan-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/30\/updated-understanding-of-the-outbreak-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-in-wuhan-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated understanding of the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Updated descriptive epidemiology is provided for the outbreak.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the authors provide an estimated case fatality of 2.84% overall, this was calculated from an outdated estimate of 1,975 cases in mainland China.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first 17 deaths reported by the China national Health Commission are described clinically.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The majority (13\/17) were male with median age of 75.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fever (65%) and cough (53%) were the most common initial symptoms reported.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Median time from symptom onset to death was 14 days (range 6-41) and was shorter for patients 70+ years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang et al. (Jan 30, 2020). Updated understanding of the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China. J Med Virology. Pre-Print. doi: 10.1002\/jmv.25689.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated descriptive epidemiology is provided for the outbreak.\u00a0 While the authors provide an estimated case fatality of 2.84% overall, this was calculated from an outdated estimate of 1,975 cases in mainland China.\u00a0 The first 17 deaths reported by the China national Health Commission are described clinically.\u00a0 The majority (13\/17) were male with median age of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/30\/updated-understanding-of-the-outbreak-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-in-wuhan-china\/\">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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3957","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\/3957","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=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}