One interesting part of the data is the high female positive rate.
International studies show about the reverse male/female ratio.
I am guessing that this is because so many nursing home residents have been tested. Because female life expectancy is several years more than male, nursing home residents are more likely to be female.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid wants visitors to nursing homes to wear masks if they visit.
Oops, mixed messaging...
Internationally, males smoke more than US males. Supposedly.
Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S014067362305663.pdf
Findings 191 patients (135 from Jinyintan Hospital and 56 from Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital) were included in this study, of whom 137 were discharged and 54 died in hospital.
91 (48%) patients had a comorbidity, with hypertension being the most common (58 [30%] patients), followed by diabetes (36 [19%] patients) and coronary heart disease (15 [8%] patients).
Multivariable regression showed increasing odds of in-hospital death associated with older age (odds ratio 1·10, 95% CI 1·03–1·17, per year increase; p=0·0043), higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score (5·65, 2·61–12·23; p<0·0001), and d-dimer greater than 1 µg/L (18·42, 2·64–128·55; p=0·0033) on admission.
Median duration of viral shedding was 20·0 days (IQR 17·0–24·0) in survivors, but SARS-CoV-2 was detectable until death in non-survivors. The longest observed duration of viral shedding in survivors was 37 days.
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“One interesting part of the data is the high female positive rate.”
May be due to women living longer than men, dying more slowly (overall) and thus needing more long-term care.