3.2 Admission temperature
The lowest record body temperature was 36.2℃, highest was 39.4℃, and average was 36.9 ± 0.55℃. There were 162 (82.7%), 22 (11.2%), 10 (5.1%), 2 (1.02%), and 0 patients with normal (36℃–37℃), low (37°C–38°C), medium (38.1°C–39°C), high (39.1°C–41°C), and ultra-high (>40°C) fevers, respectively.
3.3 Traditional Chinese medicine symptom characteristics and prescriptions at admission
The five symptoms that occurred most commonly among participants were poor appetite (82.1%), cough (65.3%), fatigue (17.9%), fever (17.4%), and aversion to cold (16.8%), as shown in Table 2.
Of the 196 patients with COVID-19, 191 received TCM prescriptions for COVID-19. Of these, the five most common were Shashen Maidong Decoction (38.2%), Sijunzi Decoction (37.7%), Maxing Shigan Decoction (31.9%), Sanren Decoction (15.7%), and Xiaochaihu Decoction (12.0%), as shown in Table 3.