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Older age, lack of vaccination and infection with variants other than Omicron associated with severity of COVID-19 and in-hospital mortality in Pakistan

2023-02-01

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<h4>Objectives</h4> We investigated factors associated with COVID-19 disease severity and in-hospital mortality in a low-middle income setting. <h4>Methods</h4> Records of 197 adult COVID-19 patients admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi between April 2021 and February 2022 were reviewed. Clinical data including, that of SARS-CoV-2 variants was collected. <h4>Results</h4> The median age of the pati...

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Literature Corpus work: c33ce2a1-31cd-5254-aabe-ac569c0c9fd9
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.30.23285170

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