Table 2 Admission characteristics, n = 200 patients
From: COVID-19 related deaths in an urban academic medical center in Brooklyn – a descriptive case series
| Symptoms associated with COVID-19 (n, %) | |
| Dyspnea | 185 (92·5) |
| Cough | 108 (54) |
| Fever (≥37.3 °C) | 108 (54) |
| Cough, dyspnea, and fever | 51 (25·5) |
| Only dyspnea (no cough, no fever) | 34 (17) |
| GI symptoms | 28 (14) |
| None of the above symptoms | 0 (0) |
| Diabetic ketoacidosis | 19 (9·5) |
| Known COVID-19 positive contact (n, %) | 14 (7) |
| Recent international travel (n, %) | 0 (0) |
| Duration of symptoms prior to admission, median (IQR), days | 4·45 (2–7) |
| 1 to 3 days of symptoms (n, %) | 102 (51) |
| 4 to 7 days of symptoms | 79 (39·5) |
| More than 1 week of symptoms | 19 (9·5) |