Is Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Less Deadly Now? Trends in In-Hospital Mortality Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the United States

Rena C Moon; Rachel H Mackey; Zhun Cao; Seth Emont; Laura L Schott; Julie A Gayle; Craig Lipkin; Ning A Rosenthal

doi:10.1093/cid/ciab830

Is Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Less Deadly Now? Trends in In-Hospital Mortality Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the United States

Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Jul 6;74(12):2238-2242. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab830.

Authors

Rena C Moon¹, Rachel H Mackey^{1

2}, Zhun Cao¹, Seth Emont¹, Laura L Schott¹, Julie A Gayle¹, Craig Lipkin¹, Ning A Rosenthal¹

Affiliations

¹ Premier Applied Sciences, Premier, Inc, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
² University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

After an initial decline from April through June 2020 (from 22.2% to 11.9%), adjusted in-hospital mortality in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) inpatients peaked twice and was significantly higher than June 2020 for subsequent months except in July and October 2020. Adjusted mortality trends differed across age groups between November 2020 and February 2021.

Keywords: COVID-19; hospital mortality; in; trend.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Inpatients
United States / epidemiology