Novel coronavirus: what does analysis of the first patients tell us?
Infectious diseases experts warn asymptomatic patients can shed the virus
The first patients hospitalised for infection with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) had viral pneumonia, with most initial symptoms being fever, dry cough and malaise, according to one of the first publications on the outbreak.
Another early report notes that some infected people in the community may be asymptomatic but shedding virus, while others are described as “cryptic cases of walking pneumonia”.
