Clinical characteristics and reasons of different duration from onset to release from quarantine for patients with COVID-19 Outside Hubei province, China.

Suochen Tian; Zhenqin Chang; Yunxia Wang; Min Wu; Wenming Zhang; Guijie Zhou; Xiuli Zou; Hui Tian; Tingfang Xiao; Junmin Xing; Juan Chen; Jian Han; Kang Ning; Tiejun Wu

Symptomatic patients, fatigue and pharyngeal pain were more obvious in patients in the > 20-day group, for unknown reasons. In terms of routine blood biochemical examination and pulmonary imaging, although the abnormal proportion of individual indicators in the ＞20-day group was higher than that in the ≤20-day group, the number of samples was not large enough to have sufficient clinical significance. There was no significant difference in the number of patients between the two groups, which was related to the fact that almost all of the patients were mild and moderate, while one critically ill patient was quickly released from quarantine. These clinical results may suggest that there is a cross relationship between the sustained positive nucleic acid of novel coronavirus in respiratory tract specimens and the severity of the disease [1, 23, 24] , but it is not a linear relationship, and the reasons for the sustained positive nucleic acid are complex. The > 20-day group used more drugs, which may be related to the eagerness to make the patient's nucleic acid All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.