Frontiers in Public Health

Changxing Shen, Min Tan, Xiaolian Song, Guoliang Zhang, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Jiren Liang, Hong Yu and Changhui Wang, Disease and Infection Control Office, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

15 May, 2020

2019 novel coronavirus (2019-ncov) bring about a great threat to human health. Clinicians in China have successfully dealt with the epidemic and accumulated rich clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. During the winter and spring seasons, influenza virus pneumonia is a common disease. A considerable number of influenza virus infections have occurred in the United States. Influenza pneumonia and COVID-19 are two different forms of respiratory viral pneumonia but share similar clinical manifestations. In addition, there is even the chance of contracting a mixed infection of both influenza virus and COVID-19 simultaneously, and therefore it is very important to make a differential diagnosis between them. In this article, we tried to summarize the typical clinical features of COVID-19 and influenza A virus H1N1 pneumonia and present a comparative analysis to enable clinicians to gain a better understanding about the differences between the two different forms of respiratory virus-induced pneumonia.

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00206/full