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Risk factors for mortality among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 – News-Medical.Net
A new study by scientists at biotechnology company Genentech, Inc., and published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 attempts to identify the factors which may shape the risk for death in COVID-19 disease.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused almost a million deaths in the nine months since the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first recognized. The high number of deaths is due to multiple factors, including the severity of the disease, the lack of effective antivirals to effectively counter the infection, limited medical supplies, and the overwhelming burden on the healthcare resources in some countries. A new study by scientists at biotechnolo…
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