Epidemiologic and Clinic Characteristics of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hospitalized Patients from Galați County

The first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan Province, in China, in December 2019, spreading rapidly around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this pandemic at the beginning of March 2020 and, at the same time, the first patient in Galați County was confirmed. Both the glo...

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Published in:Journal of clinical medicine 2021-09, Vol.10 (18), p.4210
Main Authors: Vasile, Mihaela-Camelia, Arbune, Anca-Adriana, Lupasteanu, Gabriela, Vlase, Constantin-Marinel, Popovici, George-Cosmin, Arbune, Manuela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alzheimer's disease
Clinical medicine
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Fatalities
Fever
Health surveillance
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Infections
Infectious diseases
Laboratories
Long term health care
Morbidity
Mortality
Pandemics
Patients
Pneumothorax
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Thoracic surgery
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Summary:The first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan Province, in China, in December 2019, spreading rapidly around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this pandemic at the beginning of March 2020 and, at the same time, the first patient in Galați County was confirmed. Both the global and the regional epidemiological evolutions have taken place with variations in incidence, which have been graphically recorded in several “waves”. We conducted a retrospective study on cases of COVID-19 infection, hospitalized between March and June 2020 in an infectious diseases clinic from Galati, in the south-east of Romania. The present paper describes the “first-wave” regional epidemiological and clinical-biological features and the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. A poor outcome was related to late presentation to hospital, old age, and over six comorbid conditions including Alzheimer’s disease. The high death rate among people from long-term care institutions is the consequence of the cumulative risk factors associated with immune senescence and inflammation, while COVID-19 is more likely a contributing factor to lower life expectancy.
ISSN:2077-0383
2077-0383
DOI:10.3390/jcm10184210