2019 novel coronavirus disease in hemodialysis (HD) patients: Report from one HD center in Wuhan, China

Yiqiong Ma; Bo Diao; Xifeng Lv; Jili Zhu; Wei Liang; Lei Liu; Wenduo Bu; Huiling Cheng; Sihao Zhang; Lianhua Yang; Ming Shi; Guohua Ding; Bo Shen; Huiming Wang

Until January 21, Hubei provincial government launched the secondary emergency response to public health emergencies, and the center immediately upgraded the level of prevention and protection. However, staff and patients were still infected on February 4. In that situation, the center began to carry out general screening of patients and staff, and the screening item was chest CT. The reason why the nucleic acid of pharyngeal swab virus was not adopted was that, on the one hand, the detection resources were limited, and on the other hand, the reported positive rate of nucleic acid detection was not high. Because HD patients come to the center for dialysis treatment at intervals, and during the epidemic period, many patients are worried about being infected, reducing the number of dialysis times and prolonging the dialysis interval, resulting in the screening work of more than 230 patients being completed until February 13. However, the confirmed infected case during the screening were all isolated and distributed. As can be seen from the figure 1, the vast . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.