Corona-Like Illness: Did we Got it Before WHO Announcement of the Disease?

NCT ID: NCT04336657

Last Updated: 2020-04-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2020-05-31

Brief Summary

A pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on 31 December 2019. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. The spread and severity of the disease is variable from one country to another. Our team as well as many reports suggested that in some countries a " Flu like illness but much worse" was described in October, November and early in December before the WHO announcement. Was it COVID-19?

Conditions

COVID-19

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Questionnaire

Survey to identify number of people who got unusual severe flu- like illness in last October- November

Intervention Type: OTHER

IgG

Measure the past immunity of the disease (if possible)

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All subject except excluded group

Exclusion Criteria

• subject diagnosed as COVID-19 positive and their contacts

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Aliae AR Mohamed Hussein

Professor of Pulmonology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

AssiutU

Asyut, , Egypt

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Egypt

Central Contacts

Aliae Mohamed-Hussein

Role: CONTACT

aliaehussein@aun.edu.eg

01222302352

Facility Contacts

Aliae AR Mohamed-Hussein

Role: primary

aliaehussein@gmail.com

+201222302352

Other Identifiers

AssiutU11

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id