Vaccination Criteria Based on Factors Influencing COVID-19 Diffusion and Mortality.

ABSTRACT: SARS-CoV-2 is highly contagious, rapidly turned into a pandemic, and is causing a relevant number of critical to severe life-threatening COVID-19 patients. However, robust statistical studies of a large cohort of patients, potentially useful to implement a vaccination campaign, are rare. We analyzed public data of about 19,000 patients for the period 28 February to 15 May 2020 by several mathematical methods. Precisely, we describe the COVID-19 evolution of a number of variables that include age, gender, patient's care location, and comorbidities. It prompts consideration of special preventive and therapeutic measures for subjects more prone to developing life-threatening conditions while affording quantitative parameters for predicting the effects of an outburst of the pandemic on public

SUBMITTER: Spassiani I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7765372 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature