Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease Patients under Nonsurge Conditions, Northern California, USA, March–April 2020
covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, coronavirus disease, respiratory diseases, Coronavirus diseases
Limited data are available on the clinical presentation and outcomes of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the United States hospitalized under normal-caseload or nonsurge conditions. We retrospectively studied 72 consecutive adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2 hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area, California, USA, during March 13–April 11, 2020. The death rate for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients was 8.3%, and median length of hospitalization was 7.5 days. Of the 21 (29% of total) intensive care unit patients, 3 (14.3% died); median length of intensive care unit stay was 12 days. Of the 72 patients, 43 (59.7%) had underlying cardiovascular disease and 19 (26.4%) had underlying pulmonary disease. In this study, death rates were lower than those reported from regions of the United States experiencing a high volume of COVID-19 patients.
Jessica Ferguson, Joelle I. Rosser, Orlando Quintero, Jake Scott, Aruna Subramanian, Mohammad Gumma, Angela Rogers, Shanthi Kappagoda
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases