Covid-19 related symptoms vary from quite atypical (anecdotal) to "classic" clinical presentations in the emergency department setting, requiring a high degree of suspicion.
The following are a short list of symptoms--presentations to consider:
Classic presentations are: 1. Dyspnea with hypoxia (pulse oximetry < 92% on room air)
2. Tachypnea-tachycardia
3. Fever, chills, night sweats
4. Cough
5. Myalgias
Atypical presentations: 1. Profound malaise-physical exhaustion
2. Lack of appetite
3. Insomnia
4. Dysgeusia (altered-impaired sense of taste)
5. Anosmia-hyposmia (altered sense of smell)
6. Nausea-diarrhea
7. Delirium
8. Embolic-thrombotic events in younger pationts
9. Headache-vertigo
Laboratory data: 1. CBC with differential--lymphopenia
2. Elevated ALT/AST
3. Elevated LDH
4. Elevated CRP
5. Elevated serum Ferritin
6. ABG--hypoxemia
Chest x-ray: 1. Bilateral basilar infiltares to ARDS finding
CT scan chest: 1, Ground glass appearance
