Epidemiological Characteristics of the Covid 19 Outbreak in a Secondary Hospital in Spain

Authors

Christine Giesen¹ , Laura Díez-Izquierdo¹ , Carmen Saa Requejo,¹ , Inmaculada López Carrillo¹ , Carmen López Vilela¹ , Alicia Seco Martínez¹ , Paola Maldonado Cid¹ , Rosa Ceballos Rodríguez¹ , Ricardo Valverde Garrido¹ , Cristina García Fernández¹

1. Infanta Sofía University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Conference / event

European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology, November 2020 (Virtual)

Poster summary

Our aim is to describe the cases of COVID-19 during the first four months of the epidemic at a public secondary hospital. Retrospective descriptive study. 1828 confirmed cases were attended, 64,4% were hospitalized. 5,6% were admitted to ICU. 51,6% of all confirmed cases were male. The median age was 64,4 years. The most affected age groups in our study corresponded to older ages, 70-79 in male and over 80-year-old women. 15,1% were nursing home residents. 18,3% of all confirmed cases were of Latin American origin of which 7,2% were admitted to the ICU. Overall case fatality was 14,7%. Significant differences were observed among PCR positive testing cases and clinically diagnosed cases where PCR positive had different basal characteristics and needed more ICU admission (6,7% vs 3,4%). We observed a biphasic epidemiological curve, the peak occurred between March 20 and March 23 whereas hospital and ICU admissions remained stable

Keywords

SARS-CoV-2, Pandemic, Hospital, COVID, Spain

Research areas

Medicine

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No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2022 Giesen et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.