Greater COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients in the Delta-phase Compared to the Others: A Single Center Prospective Registry

CONCLUSION: This study shows that COVID-19 patients that were hospitalized in the second (delta) phase of the epidemic had more severe disease compared to the first and third phases. In the second phase of patients, there was a significantly higher duration of hospitalization, ICU hospitalization, greater oxygen requirement, noninvasive and invasive ventilatory support, and more deaths.PMID:37449685 | DOI:10.59556/japi.71.0293

Source: Journal of the Association of Physicians of India - July 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Raghubir S Khedar Rajeev Gupta Kartik Mittal Alok Mathur Jugal B Gupta Yogendra Singh Swati Sharma Krishna K Sharma Source Type: research