BMC Research Notes (Nov 2020)

Quarantine at home may not enough!-from the epidemiological data in Shaanxi Province of China

  • Lei Shi,
  • Qian Li,
  • Kang Li,
  • Jie Zheng,
  • Yingli He,
  • Xi Zhang,
  • Xianfeng Gong,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Chao Dai,
  • Wenxuan Zhao,
  • Xuefei Meng,
  • Feng Du,
  • Pei Fan,
  • Chunyan Li,
  • Chunyan Gao,
  • Yuan Yang,
  • Xiaojing Liu,
  • Yunru Chen,
  • Jinfeng Liu,
  • Jianzhou Li,
  • Nan Yang,
  • Yinghua Niu,
  • Hongmei Chen,
  • Guoyu Zhang,
  • Taotao Yan,
  • Li Zhu,
  • Qunying Han,
  • Wanhu Fan,
  • Feng Ye,
  • Zhengwen Liu,
  • Shumei Lin,
  • Yingren Zhao,
  • Tianyan Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05342-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Abstract Objectives A pneumonia associated with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, subsequently named SARS-CoV2) emerged worldwide since December, 2019. We aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Shaanxi province of China. Results 1. Among the 245 patients, 132 (53.9%) were males and 113 (46.1%) were females. The average age was 46.15 ± 16.43 years, ranging from 3 to 89 years. 2. For the clinical type, 1.63% (4/245) patients were mild type, 84.90% (208/245) were moderate type, 7.76% (19/245) were severe type, 5.31% (13/245) were critical type and only 0.41% (1/245) was asymptomatic. 3. Of the 245 patients, 116 (47.35%) were input case, 114 (46.53%) were non-input case, and 15 (6.12%) were unknown exposure. 4. 48.57% (119/245) cases were family cluster, involving 42 families. The most common pattern of COVID-19 family cluster was between husband and wife or between parents and children.

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