Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nalleballe, Krishna
• Siddamreddy, Suman
• Kovvuru, Sukanthi
• Veerapaneni, Poornachand
• Roy, Bhaskar
• Onteddu, Sanjeeva Reddy

Titel

Risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from hospital admission during the pandemic

Ist Teil von

• Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2021-10, Vol.42 (10), p.1285-1286

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For comparison, we obtained the total number of COVID-19–positive patients in United States, from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)4 up to July 14, 2020, among the total population of the Unites States from the US Census Bureau. Baseline Demographics and Comorbidities of Patients with Hospital Discharge Between January 20, 2020, and June 30, 2020, and Patients Who Acquired COVID-19 After Hospital Discharge Characteristic Study Group (n = 101,533) COVID-19 in Study Group (n = 44) P Value Age, median y ± SD 51.4 ± 23.9 62.5 ± 14.1 .002 Sex, female, no. (%) 51,505 (50.7) 23 (52.2) .83 Race, no. (%) White 66,225 (65.2) 26 (59.1) .39 Black 24,794 (24.4) 14 (31.8) .25 % of patients with comorbid conditions Hypertensive 56.7 86.3 <.001 Diabetes mellitus 30.3 43.1 .064 Cnronic kidney disease 22.0 40.9 .002 Ischemic heart 28.1 38.6 .122 Congestive heart failure 23.9 36.3 .053 Overweight 23.8 31.8 .214 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 15.9 29.5 .013 Asthma 13.2 25.0 .021 Atrial fibrillation 16.5 22.7 .269 Smoking 22.1 22.7 .921 Overall, this result suggests a low risk of COVID-19 from hospitalization. Some SARS-CoV-2–positive patients may have contracted the virus from another source. [...]we did not examine the risk of COVID-19 in the outpatient setting.