{"id":6586,"date":"2021-03-15T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:55:32","slug":"comparison-of-clinical-characteristics-and-disease-outcome-of-covid-19-and-seasonal-influenza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/comparison-of-clinical-characteristics-and-disease-outcome-of-covid-19-and-seasonal-influenza\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Clinical Characteristics and Disease Outcome of COVID-19 and Seasonal Influenza"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compared to patients with seasonal influenza treated in hospital settings, patients with COVID-19 tended to be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">younger (median age 59 vs 66), had fewer comorbidities at baseline with a lower Charlson Comorbidity Index (mean 3.0 vs 4.0), had a longer duration of hospitalization (mean 25.9\u00a0vs 17.2\u00a0days), more frequent<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ly<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> need<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> oxygen therapy (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">61%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> vs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and invasive ventilation (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">31%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> vs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">13%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and were more frequently admitted to the ICU (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">42%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> vs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">20%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). Among patients with compromised immune systems, those with COVID-19 had a higher hospital mortality compared to those with seasonal influenza (33% vs 12%).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brehm et al.\u00a0(Mar 11, 2021). Comparison of Clinical Characteristics and Disease Outcome of COVID-19 and Seasonal Influenza. Scientific Reports. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-85081-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-85081-0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to patients with seasonal influenza treated in hospital settings, patients with COVID-19 tended to be younger (median age 59 vs 66), had fewer comorbidities at baseline with a lower Charlson Comorbidity Index (mean 3.0 vs 4.0), had a longer duration of hospitalization (mean 25.9\u00a0vs 17.2\u00a0days), more frequently needed oxygen therapy (61% vs 40%) and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/comparison-of-clinical-characteristics-and-disease-outcome-of-covid-19-and-seasonal-influenza\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}