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A study based on data from France, whose findings are published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, highlights the more serious nature of COVID-19.
The researchers compared data from 89,530 COVID-19 patients treated in hospitals in March and April this year and 45,819 people treated in hospitals for flu between December 2018 and February 2019.
During the study period, the first wave of a pandemic in Europe, when doctors still did not have many methods to treat seriously ill people, about 16.9% died. COVID-19 patients. 5.8 percent died of the flu. hospitalized patients.
Professor Catherine Quantin from INZERM University Hospital and the National Institute of Health, who co-led the study, said the death rate was “particularly staggering,” especially since the 2018-2019 flu season in France took its toll. number of lives in five years.
The study notes that the uneven number of hospitalized people (twice as many COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals) can be explained in part by the development of resistance to influenza, previous infections or vaccines.
The researchers found that 16.3 percent. COVID-19 patients required intensive care. In the case of influenza, this figure is 10.8 percent. The median duration of treatment in the intensive care unit was 15 days for COVID-19 patients and 8 days for influenza patients.
The researchers also reported that far fewer children under the age of 18 were hospitalized for COVID-19. In the case of coronavirus infection, they were 1.4 percent, and in the case of influenza, 19.5 percent.
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