{"id":8698,"date":"2021-06-25T20:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:50:23","slug":"covid-19-severity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/covid-19-severity\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristics and Management of Covid-19 According to Disease Severity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Evaluation and management of Covid-19 depend on the severity of the disease. Patients with mild disease usually recover at home, whereas patients with moderate disease should be monitored closely and sometimes hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Characteristics and Management of Covid-19 According to Disease Severity<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 19.1697%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.409%;\"><strong>Features<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 45.4212%;\"><strong>Management Considerations<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 19.1697%;\">Asymptomatic or Presymptomatic<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.409%;\">Positive SARS-CoV-2 test; no symptoms<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 45.4212%;\">Monitoring for symptoms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 19.1697%;\">Mild Illness<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.409%;\">Mild symptoms (e.g., fever, cough, or change in taste or smell); no dyspnea<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 45.4212%;\">Clinical monitoring and supportive care<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 19.1697%;\">Moderate Illness<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.409%;\">Clinical or radiographic evidence of lower respiratory tract disease; oxygen saturation \u226594%<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 45.4212%;\">Clinical monitoring; if patient is hospitalized<br \/>\nand at high risk for deterioration, possibly remdesivir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 19.1697%;\">Severe Illness<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.409%;\">Oxygen saturation &lt;94%; respiratory rate \u226530 breaths\/min; lung infiltrates &gt;50%<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 45.4212%;\">Hospitalization, oxygen therapy, and specific<br \/>\ntherapy (remdesivir, dexamethasone)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 19.1697%;\">Critical Illness<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.409%;\">Respiratory failure, shock, and multiorgan dysfunction or failure<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 45.4212%;\">Critical care and specific therapy (dexamethasone, possibly remdesivir)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Gandhi RT, Lynch JB, Del Rio C. Mild or Moderate Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020 Oct 29;383(18):1757-1766. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32329974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blair JE, Gotimukul A, Wang F, Mina SA, Bartels HC, Burns MW, Kole AE, Vikram HR, Gea-Banacloche JC, Seville MT, Petty SAB, Vikram A, Orenstein R. Mild to moderate COVID-19 illness in adult outpatients: Characteristics, symptoms, and outcomes in the first 4 weeks of illness. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Jun 18;100(24):e26371. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34128896\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Created Jun 25, 2021.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,952,2146,51,50,182,259,260,180],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-caracteristicas","tag-characteristics","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-enfermedad","tag-gravedad","tag-management","tag-manejo","tag-severity"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8709,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}