Table 4. Signs/symptoms, clinical course, and past medical history for evacuees reporting illness who were on a repatriation flight from Wuhan, China, to the United States in early 2020*.
| Characteristic | No./total no. (%)† |
|
|---|---|---|
| Self-reported illness in past 2 mo, n = 39 | Self-reported illness in past 2 wk, n = 13 | |
| Sign/symptom | ||
| Measured fever | 5/36 (14) | 3/12 (25) |
| Subjective fever | 16/37 (43) | 2/13 (15) |
| Cough | 15/36 (42) | 6/12 (50) |
| Sore throat | 21/38 (55) | 9/13 (69) |
| Muscle aches | 10/37 (27) | 2/11 (18) |
| Headache | 12/37 (32) | 1/12 (8) |
| Shortness of breath | 2/34 (6) | 1/12 (8) |
| Vomiting | 3/33 (9) | 1/11 (9) |
| Diarrhea | 7/36 (19) | 1/12 (8) |
| Fatigue | 16/37 (43) | 3/12 (25) |
| Other | 10/30 (33) | 6/10 (60) |
| Any coronavirus sign/symptom‡ |
24/39 (62) |
9/13 (69) |
| Identified as a person under investigation for COVID-19 signs/symptoms§ | 10/39 (26) | 2/13 (15) |
| Sought medical care for illness in past 2 wk | 1/39 (3) | 0/13 (0) |
*All persons who self-reported illness submitted serum and a nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab specimen. COVID-19, coronavirus disease. †Persons for whom responses were missing were excluded from the numerator and denominator. ‡Measured fever OR subjective fever, cough, or shortness of breath. §Measured or subjective fever AND shortness of breath or cough.