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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
. 2021 May 21;1-4.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.190. Online ahead of print.
A comparison of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) versus influenza during the pandemic: Can we distinguish COVID-19 from flu?
Lindsey K Nichols[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Safa B Maki[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Susan M Szpunar[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ashish Bhargava[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Louis D Saravolatz[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
We conducted a retrospective chart review examining the demographics, clinical history, physical findings, and comorbidities of patients with influenza and patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Older patients, male patients, patients reporting fever, and patients with higher body mass indexes (BMIs) were more likely to have COVID-19 than influenza.
. 2021 May 21;1-4.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.190. Online ahead of print.
A comparison of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) versus influenza during the pandemic: Can we distinguish COVID-19 from flu?
Lindsey K Nichols[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Safa B Maki[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Susan M Szpunar[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ashish Bhargava[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Louis D Saravolatz[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34016193
- DOI: 10.1017/ice.2021.190
Abstract
We conducted a retrospective chart review examining the demographics, clinical history, physical findings, and comorbidities of patients with influenza and patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Older patients, male patients, patients reporting fever, and patients with higher body mass indexes (BMIs) were more likely to have COVID-19 than influenza.