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. 2020 Dec;4(6):683-686.
doi: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.07.005. Epub 2020 Aug 15.

Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans

Benjamin C Kalayjian  1 , Katherine Conner  1 , Isolde Butler  1 , Leann Myers  2 , Christian Telleria  1 , Deepa Panchang  1 , Jason Halperin  1   3
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Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans

Benjamin C Kalayjian et al. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Federally qualified health centers are on the frontlines of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. It is essential to develop the workflows necessary to evaluate patients, perform appropriate diagnostics, make clinical recommendations, and provide public health messaging. This brief report presents findings from our COVID-19 response and compares the characteristics between the 345 patients screened between March 16 and April 10, 2020. One hundred seventeen patients tested positive for COVID-19, an overall rate of 33.9%; and Black race, increased heart rate, elevated temperature, and the use of antipyretic agents were associated with positive results.

Keywords: COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 positivity rate by day. The blue bar represents the number of positive cases; and yellow bar, the number of negative cases. The red line represents the percent positive cases per day.
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