Table 5. Time until SARS-Cov-2 nucleic acid turning negative in the children and their parents.
| Variable | Category of patients | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All patients (n=32) |
Asymptomatic infection (n=6) |
Clinical symptoms or CT abnormalities (n=26) | ||
| Nucleic acid turned negative within 14 days | ||||
| Yes | 16 (50%) | 2 (33%) | 14 (54%) | 0.394 |
| No | 15 (47%) | 4 (67%) | 11 (42%) | – |
| Unknown | 1 (3%) | 0 | 1 (4%) | – |
| Days of nucleic acid turning negative (d) | ||||
| Time (d) | 15.4±7.2 | 15.0±6.7 | 15.5±7.4 | 0.853 |
| Children | 17.6±7.9 | 0.070 | ||
| *Parents (n=17) | 22.7±10.0 | |||
*, seventeen parents of the participating children who were infected themselves.