Of 1,150 COVID-19 adult patients hospitalized in New York City from Mar 2 to Apr 1, 257 (22%) were critically ill, and 101 (39%) of them died, according to the largest known US prospective study of coronavirus patients.In the prospective cohort study, published yesterday in The Lancet, researchers from Columbia University and two affiliated NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals in Manhattan reviewed electronic medical records and lab and radiographic findings of COVID-19 patients in respiratory failure.The most common symptoms of the 257 patients included shortness of breath, fever, cough, muscle pain, and diarrhea.
Median time from symptom onset to hospitalization was 5 days; black, Hispanic, and Latino patients sought care later in their illness