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. 2021 Jun 13;9(11):e14800. doi: 10.14814/phy2.14800

TABLE 2.

Prevalence of common symptoms of COVID‐19

Study Number of participants Symptoms and prevalence (%)
(Du et al., 2020) 85

  1. Fever (91.8)

  2. Dry cough (22.4)

  3. Dyspnea (70.6)

  4. Myalgia (16.5)

  5. Diarrhoea (18.0)
(Wang, Yin, et al., 2020) 107

  1. Fever (97.2)

  2. Dry cough (62.6)

  3. Dyspnea (32.7)

  4. Fatigue (64.5)

  5. Myalgia (30.8)

  6. Diarrhoea (6.5)

  7. Nausea (5.6)
(Guan et al., 2020) 1099

  1. Cough (67.8)

  2. Dyspnea (18.7)

  3. Fatigue (38.1)

  4. Myalgia or arthralgia (14.9)

  5. Headache (13.6)

  6. Sputum production (33.7)
(Agyeman et al., 2020) (meta‐analysis)

  • Olfactory dysfunction: 24 studies, 8435 participants in total.

  • Gustatory dysfunction: 15 studies, 5649 participants in total.

  1. Olfactory dysfunction: Pooled prevalence (41.0 (28.5–53.9))

  2. Gustatory dysfunction: Pooled prevalence (38.2 (24.0–53.6))