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Observational Study
. 2020 Aug;26(8):1679-1685.
doi: 10.3201/eid2608.201776. Epub 2020 May 14.

Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease Patients under Nonsurge Conditions, Northern California, USA, March-April 2020

Jessica Ferguson, Joelle I Rosser, Orlando Quintero, Jake Scott, Aruna Subramanian, Mohammad Gumma, Angela Rogers, Shanthi Kappagoda
Observational Study

Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease Patients under Nonsurge Conditions, Northern California, USA, March-April 2020

Jessica Ferguson et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; California; Coronavirus diseases; ICU; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease; hospitalization; mortality; outcomes; pneumonia; respiratory diseases; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.

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