EARLY DETECTION OF COVID-19

Hafiz Muhammad Asif; Hafiz Abdul Sattar Hashmi

W. Guan et al, described symptoms of more severe cases of covid-19 having fever in 975/1099 patients who were hospitalized with average temperature of 38.3 °C, having Leukopenia in 33.7% patients hospitalized for Covid-19, lymphocytopenia 87.2%, thrombocytopenia 36.2%, elevated Alanine aminotransferase 21.3% and elevated Aspartate aminotransferase were 22.2% and physician diagnosed pneumonia 91.1%. Cough 67.8%, fatigue 38.1% and sputum production in 33.7% in hospitalized patients. 6 Result are compiled in Table. 1. Case report of Covid-19 patient in USA described by Michelle L Holshue et al, provides the 15 days of hospitalization detailed course of disease of Covid-19 on daily observation of signs and symptoms. 35 year male presented with dry cough and fever experiencing from 3 days. Laboratory investigations showed Leukopenia and thrombocytopenia along with slight elevated liver enzymes AST and ALT on day 6 th and 7 th of illness respectively. Physical examination revealed dry mucus member while no symptoms or rhinorrhea and pneumonia were appeared before 9 th day of illness. Nausea and vomiting appeared on 4 th day of illness. 7 Lu X et al. described detailed analysis of signs and symptoms of covid-19 in children. Lu showed leukopenia was 26.3%, in children hospitalized for Covid-19. Lymphocytopenia was 3.5%, increased ALT in 12.3%, and elevated AST 14.6%. Symptoms described as asymptomatic patients were 27/171, symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection were in 33/171 and symptoms of pneumonia were present in 111/171 of hospitalized children. 8 Now various publications explained concrete aspects of Covid-19 course of development and presentation. Longer incubation period (12.5 days) of SARS-Cov-2 embedded with some hidden advantages . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.