Epidemiological and clinical findings of discharge patients infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) in Changchun, Northeast China: A retrospective cohort study

Introduction: Few previous studies have been well described the details of the clinical and virological course of illness among discharged patients The study aims to study the epidemiological and clinical features of discharged patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Changchun, Northeast China Materials and methods: We included all discharged patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection from Changchun Infectious Hospital, China, as 9 March 2020 We extracted and collected on data of demographic characteristic, clinical features, chest computed tomography (CT) scan, laboratory result, and treatment from the electronic medical records Exact epidemiological information was obtained from the investigation of patients or close contacts by investigators of at all levels of the Center for Disease Prevention and Control in Jilin Province Results: Of the 43 discharged patient retrospective studied, 38 were mild novel coronavirus pneumonia, only one with critical ill case and no health workers were infected The median age was 41 0 years, and 25 were male All cases were infected by person-to-person transmission and the median incubation period from exposure to illness onset was 8 0 days 22 patients had comorbidities The most common symptoms at illness onset were fever, cough, expectoration, myalgia or fatigue, chest tightness, nasal congestion or sneezing Median duration of illness onset to hospital admission and discharged was 6 0 days and 22 0 days, the median duration of viral shedding after illness onset was 19 0 days (IQR: 14-22) Conclusion: Patients were imported and cluster cases by person-to-person transmission and relatively mild in Changchun, China Our findings further confirmed the prolonged viral shedding among patients © 2021 A CARBONE Editore All rights reserved