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COVID-19 Scan for Jul 29, 2020

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Invasive ventilation, older age, dialysis tied to COVID-19 death in GermanyAn observational study of 10,021 COVID-19 patients admitted to 920 German hospitals has found that patients requiring mechanical ventilation were at highest risk for death—especially those 80 years and older and those needing dialysis.The study, published yesterday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, examined claims data from hospitalized coronavirus virus patients from Feb 26 to Apr 19.

Of the 10,021 patients, 2,229 (22%) died.The death rate was much higher in patients receiving any kind of ventilation (906 of 1,727 [53%]) than in those who did not (1,323/8,294 [16%]).

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