• Acta medica Indonesiana · Jan 2020

    Clinical Progression of COVID-19 Patient with Extended Incubation Period, Delayed RT-PCR Time-to-positivity, and Potential Role of Chest CT-scan.

    • Erlina Burhan, Prasenohadi Prasenohadi, Rita Rogayah, Fathiyah Isbaniyah, Tina Reisa, and Ibrahim Dharmawan.
    • Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia - Persahabatan Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia. erlina_burhan@yahoo.com.
    • Acta Med Indones. 2020 Jan 1; 52 (1): 80-83.

    AbstractCoronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), previously called 2019-nCoV, is a novel disease caused by SARS- CoV-2 which was first identified as outbreak of unknown respiratory illness in Wuhan, China. COVID- 19 was declared as global health emergency by WHO on March 11, 2020 and quickly elevated to global pandemic on 11 March 2020. COVID-19 symptom is highly various in each patient, with fever, fatigue, shortness of breath, and cough as the main presenting symptoms. Patient with COVID-19 may shows severe symptom with severe pneumonia and ARDS, mild symptom resembling simple upper respiration tract infection, or even completely asymptomatic. Approximately 80% of cases is mild. However the number may changes as more people are getting tested. Some experts are estimating that up to 50% of all cases may be asymptomatic carrier.

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