Futoshi Kawaura, Takuya Kishi, Tadashi Yamamoto, Shiki Nakayama, Taku Goto, Reimi Tsurusawa, Toshio Katagiri, Kohei Yamanouchi, Ayako Matsuo, Naomi Kobayashi-Watanabe, Tomohiro Imamura, Yoshitaka Hirooka, Kuniyasu Takagi, Tsukuru Umemura, Kazuma Fujimoto, Shinichiro Hayashi, Ayako Takamori
The present retrospective study aimed to examine the real-world data regarding time-dependent changes in the age distribution of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as well as the severity and infectivity in a regional core hospital in Japan. Patients with COVID-19 who visited the fever outpatient branch in Takagi Hospital during phase I (May 1 to December 31, 2021), and during phase II (January 1 to April 30, 2022) were evaluated. The age distribution of outpatients and the characteristics of inpatients aged > 75 years were compared between phases I and II...
February 26, 2023: Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics