A Large Postmortem Database of COVID-19 Patients Can Inform Disease Research and Public Policy Decision Making

CONCLUSIONS.—: Changes in hospitalization and disease likely stem from longer lifespans after COVID-19 diagnosis and alteration in treatment approaches. Although Omicron variants preferentially replicate in the upper airways, autopsied patients who died of COVID-19 in that time period showed the same lung damage as earlier decedents. Most importantly, findings suggest that there are still unelucidated risk factors for death from COVID-19 including possibly genetic susceptibility.PMID:38452801 | DOI:10.5858/arpa.2023-0380-OA

Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - March 7, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jody E Hooper Harry Sanchez Silvio Litovsky Zhen Arthur Lu Edward W Gabrielson Robert F Padera Thora Steffensen Isaac H Solomon Andrea Gilbert Kirsten J Threlkeld Amy V Rapkiewicz Holly Harper Meghan E Kapp Mary K Schwerdt Sharon Mount Yiwen Wang Rong Lu Source Type: research