Abstract
Pneumonia is one of the common complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection where most patients have moderate to severe symptoms that pose a higher risk for death. This study aims to evaluate the treatment outcome of COVID-19-associated Pneumonia among patients with/without comorbidity in a public hospital in Indonesia. This is a retrospective cohort study involving unvaccinated confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital between March and December 2020. All confirmed COVID-19 patients with Pneumonia (n = 1522) treated at the hospital were included. The majority of patients (99%) had mild COVID-19 symptoms while the remaining had moderate symptoms. The median age was about 32 years old and the average treatment duration was 6.25 ± 1.83 days. Most patients (88.8%) received a combination of azithromycin and oseltamivir. There was a very significant relationship (p < 0.001) between comorbidities with treatment and duration of treatment of Pneumonia in COVID-19 patients. Although most patients had Pneumonia and comorbidities, they were successfully treated with azithromycin and oseltamivir combination following approximately five days of treatment.
Highlights
Several coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections in humans ranging from coughs and colds to more serious ones [1]
We aim to evaluate the treatment outcome for Pneumonia among pre-vaccinated COVID-19 patients with/without comorbidity in a public hospital in Bengkulu, Indonesia
This is a retrospective cohort study involving 1522 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the green zone area at a public hospital, Bengkulu
Summary
Several coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections in humans ranging from coughs and colds to more serious ones [1]. The symptoms experienced are usually mild and appear gradually and some infected individuals may not show any signs and still feel healthy [1]. WHO officially declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on Wednesday, 11 March 2020 and the cases have been increasing ever since. According to the WHO, a pandemic is the scale of the spread of a condition globally throughout the world, including in Indonesia [2,3]. The Indonesian Ministry of Health recorded an increase in positive cases of COVID-19 on 5 November 2021, bringing the total to 4,246,802. The Ministry of Health has examined 47,709,218 specimens, with a cure rate of 84.0%. The cases of death with confirmed COVID19 increased to 143,500 cases [4]
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