Does hospital overload increase the risk of death when infected by SARS-CoV-2?
Benjamin Glemain,
Charles Assaad,
Walid Ghosn
et al.
Abstract:Several studies found an association between the risk of death for COVID-19 patients and hospital overload during the first pandemic wave. We studied this association across the French departments using 82,467 serological samples and a hierarchical Bayesian model. In high-incidence areas, we hypothesized that hospital overload would increase infection fatality rate (IFR) without increasing infection hospitalization rate (IHR). We found that increasing departmental incidence from 3% to 9% rose IFR from 0.42% to… Show more
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