Virus Corona: How does Covid-19 change over the day?

Initially, the patient showed symptoms of fever and cough, after 10 days of aggravation, the average recovery time was 17 days.

Day 1

The patient has a fever, may feel tired, muscle aches and a dry cough. Some patients may have diarrhea or nausea 1-2 days before.

Day 5

Patients may have difficulty breathing, especially if they are elderly or have a medical history.

People in Beijing wear two layers of masks to prevent Covid-19.(Photo: Reuters)

7th

On average, this is the time patients are usually hospitalized, according to a study by Wuhan University.

Day 8

Severely ill patients (15% of patients fall into this situation, according to Chinese CDC) with the development of progressive respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which usually occurs when fluid accumulates in the lungs. ARDS is easily fatal.

10th

If the patient's symptoms worsen, this is considered to be an additional time of infection. The patient is likely to be transferred to the intensive care unit. These patients may experience abdominal pain, loss of appetite than those with mild illness. Only a small part of deaths at this stage, estimated at 2%.

17th

The average time for those who recover from a viral infection, then the patient is discharged.

However, the first symptoms may not come as soon as a person is infected. Lauren Ancel Meyers, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said a patient with Covid-19 infection may not show symptoms for 5 days or more.

Once the symptoms appear will be similar to pneumonia. But Paras Lakhani, a radiologist at Thomas Jefferson University points out that Covid-19's distribution in the body can get worse over time.

"Pneumonia usually does not progress quickly. Usually most hospitals treat with antibiotics and the patient will be stable, health will progress after that . " However, Covid-19 patients will probably get worse even after they are treated with steroids. A case study showed that 3 days after a 33-year-old woman started treatment at a hospital in Lanzhou is clear evidence of this.

The world currently records 2,462 deaths, 78,771 people infected with nCoV, of which, 23,166 have recovered. A total of 20 deaths from nCoV were recorded outside of mainland China, including Japan, South Korea, France, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Iran and Italy.

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