Severe Acute Respiratory Disease in a Huanan Seafood Market Worker: Images of an Early Casualty

A 44-year-old man who was a transportation staff mem- ber in the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, presented with a 13-day history of high fever and cough on December 25, 2019. High-sensitivity C-reactive protein level and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were elevated (160.0 mg/L and 78.6 mm/h, respectively), while blood cell count showed normal white cells (5.29 3 10 9 /L) with decreased lymphocytes (0.22 3 10 9 /L). Chest CT showed patchy bilateral ground-glass opacities with peribronchial and peripheral/subpleural distribution (Fig