{"id":1677,"date":"2020-10-20T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:15:17","slug":"risk-for-in-hospital-complications-associated-with-covid-19-and-influenza-veterans-health-administration-united-states-october-1-2018-may-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/20\/risk-for-in-hospital-complications-associated-with-covid-19-and-influenza-veterans-health-administration-united-states-october-1-2018-may-31-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk for In-Hospital Complications Associated with COVID-19 and Influenza \u2014 Veterans Health Administration, United States, October 1, 2018\u2013May 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had an in-hospital mortality rate more than 5-fold higher than influenza patients (21% vs 4%), according to retrospective data from a Veterans Health Administration cohort. After adjusting for age, sex, race\/ethnicity and underlying comorbidities, COVID-19 patients had 19-fold higher risk of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome. Risks for exacerbations of asthma and COPD were lower. Non-Hispanic Black and African American patients had a greater risk of developing respiratory, neurologic, and renal complications compared to white patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cates et al. (Oct 20, 2020). Risk for In-Hospital Complications Associated with COVID-19 and Influenza \u2014 Veterans Health Administration, United States, October 1, 2018\u2013May 31, 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6942e3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6942e3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had an in-hospital mortality rate more than 5-fold higher than influenza patients (21% vs 4%), according to retrospective data from a Veterans Health Administration cohort. After adjusting for age, sex, race\/ethnicity and underlying comorbidities, COVID-19 patients had 19-fold higher risk of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome. Risks for exacerbations of asthma&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/20\/risk-for-in-hospital-complications-associated-with-covid-19-and-influenza-veterans-health-administration-united-states-october-1-2018-may-31-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}