4: When should you go to the Hospital?

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Q: When should I go to the Hospital?

 💁Tracy: The most common symptoms of COVID-19 include:

  • Fever



  • Dry cough


  • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
  • Chills
  • Repeated shaking with chills
  • Muscle pain


  • Headache
  • Sore throat
  • New loss of taste or smell

If you experience these symptoms and not sure if you have a common cold or flu, please call your doctors and use CDC’s Self-Checker to see the guidance. Arrange a COVID-19 test if possible.

But if you have been in close contact with a person known to have COVID-19, or recently been in the infected area of COVID-19, you should ask for the COVID-19 test as soon as possible.

Whether test or not, quarantine is the first thing you should do. Stay home and separate from your family.

Watch for these signs of an emergency when you are self-quarantine at home:

  • Trouble breathing



  • Persistent pain or pressure in the chest



  • Confusion or inability to arouse




  • Bluish lips or face 




If you show these symptoms, call 911 or go to emergency room right away.


Reference
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html
[2] Wu Z, McGoogan J M. Characteristics of and important lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China: summary of a report of 72 314 cases from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention[J]. Jama, 2020.
[3] Sun P, Qie S, Liu Z, et al. Clinical characteristics of 50466 hospitalized patients with 2019‐nCoV infection[J]. Journal of medical virology, 2020.
[4] Li L, Huang T, Wang Y, et al. 2019 novel coronavirus patients’ clinical characteristics, discharge rate and fatality rate of meta‐analysis[J]. Journal of Medical Virology, 2020.

Writing: Jingyi Xi; Translation: Yuehan Wu; Artwork: Henry Yuanheng Hu

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