Table 5. Presenting symptoms and signs during the first 24 hours of admission.

	n (%) or median [IQR]
	All patients	Non-severe disease	Severe disease	p-value
	n = 223(%)	n = 168(%)	n = 55(%)
Days from symptom onset to presentation, median	5[8–3]	5[3–8]	7[2–9]	0.9277
Subjective
Respiratory symptomsa	192(86.1)	140(83.3)	52(94.6)	0.0370*
GI symptomsb	118(52.9)	88(52.4)	30(54.6)	0.7801
Systemic symptomsc	178(79.8)	136(81.0)	42(76.4)	0.4617
Chest pain	52(23.3)	46(27.4)	6(10.9)	0.0015
Objective
Feverd	133(59.6)	96(57.1)	37(67.3)	0.1838
Hypothermiae	21(9.4)	15(8.9)	6(10.9)	0.6625
Tachycardiaf	118(52.9)	84(50.0)	34(61.8)	0.1275
Tachypneag	156(70)	109(64.9)	47(85.5)	0.0039*
Hypoxiah	167(74.9)	114(67.9)	53(96.4)	< .0001*
Hypotensioni	27(12.1)	14(8.3)	13(23.6)	0.0025*

^aSymptoms of cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, sore throat, and congestion were grouped as respiratory;

^bGI symptoms were nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain;

^csystemic symptoms were fever, myalgias, rash, encephalopathy, dizziness.

Abbreviations: ^bGI, gastrointestinal

^dFever was defined as the highest temp of >38C;

^ehypothermia as the lowest temp of <36C;

^ftachycardia was defined as having a heart rate of >100 beats per minute;

^gtachypnea was defined as having a respiratory rate of >20 breaths per minute;

^hhypoxia was defined as having an O2 saturation of <95% on room air;

ⁱhypotension was having a systolic blood pressure of <90mm Hg.

*p-values of <0.05