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. 2020 Jun;13(6):890-892.
doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2020.04.015. Epub 2020 May 11.

Importance of timely management of patients in reducing fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019

Yuzhu Peng  1 , Biyun Xu  2 , Beicheng Sun  3 , Guangshu Han  4 , Yi-Hua Zhou  5
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Importance of timely management of patients in reducing fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019

Yuzhu Peng et al. J Infect Public Health. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) characterized with pneumonia, firstly occurred in Wuhan city, China, in December 2019 has so far spread in over 200 countries and territories in the world. One of the important goals in facing outbreaks of COVID-19 is to reduce the case fatality rate. We reported here that the fatality rate of COVID-19 in other provinces of mainland China was 0.82% (121/14,708), significantly lower than 6.62% (4512/68,128) in Hubei province (p<0.0001). The main reason for the lower fatality rate was likely due to the timely management of the patients in other provinces, highlighting the importance of timely management of patients in reducing the fatality rate of COVID-19.

Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Fatality rate; Timely management.

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Fig. 1
Location of Hubei province and other provinces in mainland China. Wuhan city is the capital of Hubei province. There are totally 34 provinces and special districts in mainland China. COVID-19 patients were confirmed in all 33 other provinces and special districts, in addition to Hubei province. The total numbers of confirmed COVID-19 patients and fatal cases in Hubei province and other 33 provinces are presented in Table 1.
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Fig. 2
Evolution of fatality rate of COVID-19 in Hubei and other provinces of mainland China. The arrow denotes that the fatal patients who were not diagnosed with COVID-19 in Hubei province at the earlier time were retrospectively confirmed and added to the death toll on April 17, 2020.
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