Epidemiological and Clinical Features of 200 Hospitalized Patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 in Yichang, China: A Descriptive Study

Abstract

Within two weeks after the outbreak, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolated samples from lower respiratory tract for deep sequencing analysis, suggesting a novel coronavirus, which was officially named SARS-CoV-2 by WHO on Feb 11, 2020. Since the SARS-CoV-2 has typical characteristics of the coronavirus family, it is currently classified in the lineage B beta coronaviruses that also include Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) [3-6].Although the source of the SARS-CoV-2 is still under investigation, genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis proved that the sequence of RNA genome of the virus is similar to bat coronaviruses, indicating the bats maybe the primary source [7].

Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19: The Chinese Experience

“…We performed a meta-analyses using the “meta” package in R software version 3.6.3 (the R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria). The pooled incidence of AKI in all reported COVID-19 patients from these 26 studies was 6.5% (95% CI 4.1-10.2), with a much higher rate in patients from the ICU (32.5%, 95% CI 21.2-46.3) 8 , 14 , 19 than in patients from mixed departments (5.1%, 95% CI 3.3-7.8) 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ( Figure 1 a) . Studies from Wuhan showed a higher AKI incidence (9.7%, 95% CI 6.2-14.9) than studies from outside Wuhan (2.8%, 95% CI 1.2-6.6%) ( Figure 1 b) .…”

COVID19, mental wellbeing and work engagement

“…The alarming increase in the number of suspected cases and patients, and the increasing number of countries affected by the outbreak have elicited public worry about getting infected. As the magnitude of the disease, estimating the production number and transmission dynamics remains unclear, the epidemiological data (Livingston & Bucher, 2020;Ng et al, 2020) inform that it disproportionately impacts older adults (Applegate & Ouslander, 2020) especially immune-compromised having medical comorbidities (Shi et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2020). However, with such a short history and rapid spread over the entire human habitat, there is a dearth of information available about its broader mental health implications (Vahia et al, 2020).…”