Clinical Characterization of the Three Waves of COVID-19 Occurring in Southern Italy: Results of a Multicenter Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: To characterize patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the three waves in Southern Italy. We conducted a multicenter observational cohort study involving seventeen COVID-19 Units in Campania, southern Italy: All adult (≥18 years) patients, hospitalized with a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection from 28 February 2020 to 31 May 2021, were enrolled. Two thousand and fifteen COVID-19 hospitalized patients were enrolled; 392 (19%) in the first wave, 917 (45%) in the second and 706 (35%) in the third wave. Patients showed a less severe clinical outcome in the first wave than in the second and third waves (73%, 65% and 72%, respectively; p = 0.003), but hospitalization expressed in days was longer in the first wave [Median (Q1-Q3): 17 (13-25) v.s. 14 (9-21) and 14 (9-19), respectively, p = 0.001)] a

SUBMITTER: Pisaturo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9738780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature