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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2020

Influenza-associated pneumonia as reference to assess seriousness of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Kristin Tolksdorf, Silke Buda, Ekkehard Schuler, Lothar H Wieler, Walter Haas

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Clinical outcomes and characteristics of patients hospitalized for Influenza or COVID-19 in Germany.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  15. Risk Perception of COVID-19 Community Transmission among the Spanish Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kristin TolksdorfRobert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Silke BudaRobert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Ekkehard SchulerHelios Kliniken GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Lothar H WielerRobert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Walter HaasRobert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information on severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (transmissibility, disease seriousness, impact) is crucial for preparation of healthcare sectors. We present a simple approach to assess disease seriousness, creating a reference cohort of pneumonia patients from sentinel hospitals. First comparisons exposed a higher rate of COVID-19 patients requiring ventilation. There were more case fatalities among COVID-19 patients without comorbidities than in the reference cohort. Hospitals should prepare for high utilisation of ventilation and intensive care resources.

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AgedAged, 80 and overBetacoronavirusCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksFemaleHospitalizationHumansInfluenza, HumanMalePandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Sentinel SurveillanceCOVID-19hospitalpneumoniaSARS-CoV-2seriousness of disease

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PMCPMC7096775

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