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

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.21.20038778 doi: medRxiv preprint decreased white blood cell and lymphocyte counts. Among the first few symptoms on admission, the proportion of shortness of breath and gastrointestinal symptoms was high, which could not exclude the influence of psychological factors. In addition, the proportion of patients with fever was not high, and the fever was mainly low. These characteristics were different from other highly infectious respiratory virus infections. [15, 16] Among the routine blood biochemistry on admission, the most common was a reduction in the lymphocyte count, and in nearly half of these patients, the number was ≤ 0.6×10 9/L . White blood cell counts were mostly normal, and less than a third of patients were lower.