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Study identifies six different “types” of COVID-19 – CBS News

The six categories are defined by different clusters of symptoms, and some patients in some groups are much more likely to need ventilators.

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A new study of COVID-19, based on data from a symptom tracker app, determined that there are six distinct “types” of the disease involving different clusters of symptoms. The discovery could potentially open new possibilities for how doctors can better treat individual patients and predict what level of hospital care they would need.
Researchers from King’s College London studied data from approximately 1,600 U.K. and U.S. patients who regularly logged their symptoms in the COVID Symptom Tracke…

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