Analysis of early characteristics of patients with novel coronavirus infection in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China

ABSTRACT

To analyze the epidemiological characteristics and early clinical characteristics of patients with new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection in Kunming, and to provide evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment. The epidemiological history, clinical symptoms, and laboratory test data of 41 of 2019-nCoV confirmed patients admitted to the isolation ward of The third People's Hospital of Kunming from January 23 to February 10, 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The vast majority of 41 2019-nCoV confirmed patients were imported cases, with incubation periods ranging from 2 to 20 days;severe and critically ill patients were Severe and critically ill patients were older, had higher BMI, similar clinical symptoms, and lymphocytes than patients with mild and general type Lower counts, earlier changes in blood gas, higher erythrocyte sedimentation, lower CA and FE, and more significant decreases in CD4 and CD8 counts. The changes of lymphocyte count, blood gas, ESR, CA and FE and T lymphocyte subsets will appear earlier in the week before the disease is aggravated, which has a certain early warning effect on the severity of the disease.