Table 9.
Clinical history - frequency of patients with respect to age categories for 2020 & 2021 cases.
| History | Female |
Male |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year group |
Year group |
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| <20 |
20–29 |
30–39 |
40–49 |
50–59 |
60–69 |
70–79 |
80–89 |
<20 |
20–29 |
30–39 |
40–49 |
50–59 |
60–69 |
70–79 |
80–89 |
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| (n) | (n) | |||||||||||||||
| None | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sore throat | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - |
| SOB/dyspnea | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 |
| Headache | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| GI symptoms | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chest discomfort/pain | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Myalgia/arthralgia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| COVID +ve | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | - |
| ?COVID | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cancer | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| General malaise | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Cough and fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Cough, SOB/dyspnoea | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| General malaise, fever, COVID-19 +ve and cough | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cough, SOB/dyspnoea, myalgia/arthralgia and COVID-19 +ve | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cough and SOB/dyspnea | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| SOB/dyspnoea and COVID +ve | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| COVID +ve and general malaise | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Cough, myalgia/arthralgia and COVID +ve | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Cough, SOB/dyspnoea and fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Cough, SOB/dyspnoea, COVID-19 +ve and fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Total | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 2 |
Key: COVID-19 +ve = COVID-19 infection which has been confirmed by a positive PCR test prior to HRCT scanning ?COVID-19 = suspected COVID-19 infection confirmed by a positive PCR test, from throat and nasal swab samples taken immediately after HRCT scanning.