Increasing Age, the Existence of Comorbidities, and Corticosteroid Treatment in Combination With Antiviral Therapy Prolongs the Recovery of SARS-COV-2-Infected Patients, Measured as the Conversion From Positive to Negative rtPCR: A 239 Patients' Retrospective Study

Clinical review of COVID-19 patients presenting to a quaternary care private hospital in South India: A retrospective study

“…Studies have shown that during the early phase of the pandemic, patients aged ≥70 years were at a higher risk and were subsequently isolated. 12 , 13 However, it has been observed that the mean age has shifted towards the 50 years age group, 14 and these corroborate with the results observed in our study; patients aged ≥50 years were at a significantly higher risk of death from the SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to those below the age of 50 years.…”