Rapid shortening of survival duration in early fatal cases of COVID-19, Wuhan, China

Severe COVID-19 cases place immediate pressure on hospital resources. To assess this, we analysed survival duration in the first 39 fatal cases in Wuhan, China. Time from onset and hospitalization to death declined rapidly, from ~40 to 7 days, and ~25 to 4 days, respectively, in the outbreak’s first...

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Autores principales: Nevels, Michael, Zhang, Yuzhou, Bambrick, Hilary, Tong, Shilu, Lambert, Stephen B, Hu, Wenbiao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/exp.2020.73
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Sumario:Severe COVID-19 cases place immediate pressure on hospital resources. To assess this, we analysed survival duration in the first 39 fatal cases in Wuhan, China. Time from onset and hospitalization to death declined rapidly, from ~40 to 7 days, and ~25 to 4 days, respectively, in the outbreak’s first month.

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