The COVID-19 Pandemic in a Hispanic Population: A Primary Care Perspective

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Figure 1.
Screening tool for recording patient symptoms.
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Patient sets. Most patients presenting for medical care in a primary care setting during a pandemic do not have COVID-19. Out of 6616 patient visits, 409 patients were triaged to our isolation and containment area.
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Venn Diagram scatter plot of symptoms clusters. N = 204 patients had 1 or more symptoms in the above categories. Sore throat was not a symptom of the initial variant of COVID-19, thus the omission from this figure. This figure was generated using the Venn diagram webtool from Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Genomics (http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/Venn/).

Table 1.

Demographics and Vital Signs of Hispanic Patients Tested for COVID-19 at Alivio Medical Center

	Total, n = 378	Symptomatic, n = 230	Asymptomatic, n = 148	P-Value
Age, mean ± SD	39.4 ± 12.7	40.6 ± 12.5	37.5 ± 13.0	0.026
Gender, % men	63.1%	68%	59.8%	0.09
Ethnicity, % Hispanic	100%	100%	100%	N/A
Diabetes	7.3%	8.5%	5.5%	0.29
Hypertension	5.4%	5.8%	4.8%	0.697
Temperature, mean ± SD	98.8 ± 1.5	99.3 ± 1.3	98 ± 1.2	0.0004
Pulse rate, mean ± SD	86.1 ± 14.7	90.3 ± 14.2	80.1 ± 13.4	<0.0001

Symptomatic patients presenting for testing were older, had higher temperature and a higher pulse rate.
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.

Table 2.

Symptom Clusters for COVID-19 Positive Patients

Group Name	Symptoms	Number of patients (%)
Constitutional	Fever Fatigue Malaise	143 (62%)
Respiratory	Cough Dyspnea Shortness of breath	136 (59%)
Somatic	Myalgia Arthralgia	97 (42%)
Gastrointestinal	Nausea Vomiting Diarrhea	34 (15%)
Neurological	Anosmia Dysgeusia	28 (12%)