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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 May 14;26(8). doi: 10.3201/eid2608.201776. [Epub ahead of print]
Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease Patients under Nonsurge Conditions, Northern California, USA, March-April 2020.
Ferguson J, Rosser JI, Quintero O, Scott J, Subramanian A, Gumma M, Rogers A, Kappagoda S.
Abstract
Limited data are available on the clinical presentation and outcomes of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the United States hospitalized under normal-caseload or nonsurge conditions. We retrospectively studied 72 consecutive adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2 hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area, California, USA, during March 13-April 11, 2020. The death rate for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients was 8.3%, and median length of hospitalization was 7.5 days. Of the 21 (29% of total) intensive care unit patients, 3 (14.3% died); median length of intensive care unit stay was 12 days. Of the 72 patients, 43 (59.7%) had underlying cardiovascular disease and 19 (26.4%) had underlying pulmonary disease. In this study, death rates were lower than those reported from regions of the United States experiencing a high volume of COVID-19 patients.
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19; California; Coronavirus diseases; ICU; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease; hospitalization; mortality; outcomes; pneumonia; respiratory diseases; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses
PMID:32407284DOI:10.3201/eid2608.201776
Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease Patients under Nonsurge Conditions, Northern California, USA, March-April 2020.
Ferguson J, Rosser JI, Quintero O, Scott J, Subramanian A, Gumma M, Rogers A, Kappagoda S.
Abstract
Limited data are available on the clinical presentation and outcomes of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the United States hospitalized under normal-caseload or nonsurge conditions. We retrospectively studied 72 consecutive adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2 hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area, California, USA, during March 13-April 11, 2020. The death rate for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients was 8.3%, and median length of hospitalization was 7.5 days. Of the 21 (29% of total) intensive care unit patients, 3 (14.3% died); median length of intensive care unit stay was 12 days. Of the 72 patients, 43 (59.7%) had underlying cardiovascular disease and 19 (26.4%) had underlying pulmonary disease. In this study, death rates were lower than those reported from regions of the United States experiencing a high volume of COVID-19 patients.
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19; California; Coronavirus diseases; ICU; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease; hospitalization; mortality; outcomes; pneumonia; respiratory diseases; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses
PMID:32407284DOI:10.3201/eid2608.201776