Day 1: Patients run a fever. They may also experience fatigue, muscle pain, and a dry cough. A small minority may have had diarrhea or nausea one to two days before.
Day 5: Patients may have difficulty breathing — especially if they are older or have a preexisting health condition.
Day 7: This is how long it takes, on average, before patients are admitted to a hospital, according to the Wuhan University study.
Day 10: If patients have worsening symptoms, this is the time in the disease’s progression when they’re most likely to be admitted to the ICU. These patients probably have more abdominal pain and appetite loss than patients with milder cases. Only a small fraction die: The current fatality rate hovers at about 2%.
Day 17: On average, people who recover from the virus are discharged from the hospital after 2 1⁄2 weeks.
It would be great if we knew at what point in this process people are typically “confirmed as having COVID-19”, for modeling the lag between time of infection and time of diagnosis.
Do people only get “confirmed” after they’ve been admitted to a hospital?
Day by day course of coronavirus, starting from day 1 of symptoms
It would be great if we knew at what point in this process people are typically “confirmed as having COVID-19”, for modeling the lag between time of infection and time of diagnosis.
Do people only get “confirmed” after they’ve been admitted to a hospital?
I think it varies by country. My impression is that for the US you have to be very ill, but Korea is doing drive by testing.