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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages 2346-2352Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2610.201620
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- Daegu Medical Association COVID-19 scientific committee
- Korea Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, South Korea [HI16C1501]
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We evaluated the clinical course of asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) admitted to community treatment centers (CTCs) for isolation in South Korea. Of 632 patients, 75 (11.9%) had symptoms at admission, 186 (29.4%) were asymptomatic at admission but developed symptoms during their stay, and 371 (58.7%) remained asymptomatic during their entire clinical course. Nineteen (3.0%) patients were transferred to hospitals, but 94.3% (573/613) of the remaining patients were discharged from CTCs upon virologic remission. The mean virologic remission period was 20.1 days (SD +/- 7.7 days). Nearly 20% of patients remained in the CTCs for 4 weeks after diagnosis. The virologic remission period was longer in symptomatic patients than in asymptomatic patients. In mildly symptomatic patients, the mean duration from symptom onset to virologic remission was 11.7 days (SD +/- 8.2 days). These data could help in planning for isolation centers and formulating self-isolation guidelines.
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