Corona-Like Illness: Did we Got it Before WHO Announcement of the Disease?

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: IgG; Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04336657

AssiutU11

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on 31 December 2019. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. The spread and severity of the disease is variable from one country to another. Our team as well as many reports suggested that in some countries a " Flu like illness but much worse" was described in October, November and early in December before the WHO announcement. Was it COVID-19?

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All subject except excluded group

Exclusion criteria

• subject diagnosed as COVID-19 positive and their contacts