Clinical characteristics of 80 hospitalized frontline medical workers infected with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
Xinghuan Wang, Wei Liu, Jianping Zhao, Yanjiao Lu, Xinghuan Wang, Congcong Yu, Sheng Hu, Ning Shen, Wei Liu, Ziyong Sun, Wenbin Li
Abstract
More than 1000 medical workers have been infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. From January 10th to February 24th, 2020, a total of 80 medical workers were admitted to Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, including 57 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) confirmed and 23 clinically diagnosed. The median age was 39 years (interquartile range: 32–48.5), 49 (61.25%) were women, and one patient died. The most common symptoms at onset were fever (65; 81.25%), cough (47; 58.75%), fatigue (28; 35%), myalgia (19; 23.75%), expectoration (19; 23.75%), and diarrhoea (15; 18.75%). Frontline medical workers admitted as patients to this single-centre hospital showed some unique clinical and laboratory findings compared with other patients in Wuhan province and elsewhere.