Clinical and CT features of early-stage patients with COVID-19: a retrospective analysis of imported cases in Shanghai, China

The European respiratory journal

Yang, Shuyi; Shi, Yuxin; Lu, Hongzhou; Xu, Jianqing; Li, Feng; Qian, Zhiping; Hua, Xinyan; Ding, Xueting; Song, Fengxiang; Shen, Jie; Lu, Yang; Shan, Fei; Zhang, Zhiyong.

To the Editor,

Since December 2019, some patients with novel corona virus infectious disease (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The pathogen analysis discovered a new type of coronavirus from infected airway epithelial cells and named as sever acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). At the time of Chinese people were heading home for celebrating the Spring Festival, many latent cases left Wuhan, which led to the emergence of imported COVID-19 cases across the mainland of China and some other countries. Shanghai is one of the major cities with imported cases.

Keywords

COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Treatment