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. 2020 May 27;7:256. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00256
0 Hospital discharge or meets discharge criteria Discharge criteria are defined as:
1 Normal body temperature for more than 3 days;
2 Significantly improved respiratory symptoms: no oxygen supplementation requirement, stable and normal vital signs for longer than 1 day;
3 Lung imaging shows obvious absorption and resolution of acute infiltrates;
4 Negative results of the nucleic acid test for SARS-CoV-2 two times consecutively, with at least a 1-day interval between tests.
1 Mild Improving and/or mild clinical symptoms and no pneumonia changes in radiological imaging studies.
2 Moderate Active symptoms like fever and respiratory tract symptoms and pulmonary infiltrates seen in imaging.
3 Severe Meeting any of the following:
1 Respiratory distress, RR ≥30 breaths/min;
2 Pulse oximetry (SpO2) ≤ 93% on room air at rest state;
3 Arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2)/oxygen concentration (FiO2) ≤ 300 mmHg
4 Critical illness Meeting any of the following:
1 Mechanical ventilation;
2 Shock;
3 Other organ failure complications that require intensive care unit care
5 Death