Characteristics of COVID-19 and mortality-associated factors during the first year of the pandemic in southeast Mexico.

Abstract

Aim: The present study was designed to evaluate the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 and mortality-associated factors during the first year of the pandemic in patients from southeastern Mexico. Patient & methods: A total of953 records from patients with COVID-19 were cross-sectionally studied in a primary care hospital in southeast Mexico between 2020 and 2021. Results: The prevalent symptoms were fever (78.6%), cough (80.5%)and headache (82.8%) anddyspnea reached 13.5%. The mortality rate was 7.63%and the clinical variables associated with it were age >60years, hypertension, severe disease, radiographic pneumonia, days to diagnosisand having two Mayan surnames. Conclusion: Future health strategies should consider age, comorbidities, disease severity, clinical manifestationsand possessing ethnicity of risk (i.e., Mayan genetic background).