One month after the first positive RT-PCR (1st F/U)
Overall, 202 discharged patients were contacted for follow-up laboratory
studies and 82 patients, including 27 women (33%) and 55 men (64%),
decided to participate in this study.
Patients had a median age of 47 ranging between 29 and 84 years old.
Table 1 shows the demographic description of participants. The first
RT-PCR results of 4 patients (4.87%) were positive; who were
asymptomatic and not different from those who tested negative in terms
of the duration of the initial admission, the severity of the first
episode of the disease, presence and type of underlying diseases, and
recent history of using immunosuppressive drugs (P-value: 0.63, 0.57,
0.59, 0.61).