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Characteristics of persons who died with COVID-19—United States, February 12–May 18, 2020.

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Wortham, Jonathan M., Lee, James T., Althomsons, Sandy, Latash, Julia, Davidson, Alexander, Guerra, Kevin, Murray, Kenya, McGibbon, Emily +54 more·2020·MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

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Underlying medical conditions include cardiovascular disease (congenital heart disease, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, cerebrovascular accident/stroke, valvular heart disease, conduction disorders or dysrhythmias, other cardiovascular disease); diabetes mellitus; chronic lung disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/emphysema, asthma, tuberculosis, other chronic lung diseases); immunosuppression (cancer, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, identified as being immunosuppressed); chronic kidney disease (chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, other kidney diseases); neurologic conditions (dementia, seizure disorder, other neurologic conditions); chronic liver disease (cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, chronic liver disease, end-stage liver disease, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, other chronic liver diseases); obesity (body mass index ≥30 kg/m 2 ).Information was collected from decedent medical records or death certificates.For 10 states (10,461 decedents), information was abstracted into state surveillance data structures and transmitted to CDC.For six states (186 decedents), the medical records and death certificates were sent to CDC and abstracted using a standardized form.

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Wortham, J. M., Lee, J. T., Althomsons, S., Latash, J., Davidson, A., Guerra, K., Murray, K., McGibbon, E., Pichardo, C., Toro, B., Li, L., Paladini, M., Eddy, M. L., Reilly, K. H., McHugh, L., Thomas, D., Tsai, S., Ojo, M., Rolland, S., Bhat, M., Hutchinson, K., Sabel, J., Eckel, S., Collins, J., Donovan, C., Cope, A., Kawasaki, B., McLafferty, S., Alden, N., Herlihy, R., Barbeau, B., Dunn, A. C., Clark, C., Pontones, P., McLafferty, M. L., Sidelinger, D. E., Krueger, A., Kollmann, L., Larson, L., Holzbauer, S., Lynfield, R., Westergaard, R., Crawford, R., Zhao, L., Bressler, J. M., Read, J. S., Dunn, J., Lewis, A., Richardson, G., Hand, J., Sokol, T., Adkins, S. H., Leitgeb, B., Pindyck, T., Eure, T., Wong, K., Datta, D., Appiah, G. D., Brown, J., Traxler, R., Koumans, E. H., & Reagan-Steiner, S.
Affiliations
Wisconsin Department of Health Services (US)
Corresponding author
Wortham, Jonathan M.
Venue
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Published
2020-07-17
Volume
69
Issue
28
Pages
923-929
ISSN
  • 0149-2195 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-861X
OpenAlex
W3040719338
Cited by
241
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 92 · 2020: 55
FWCI
7.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 mortality, underlying disease, comorbidities, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic lung disease, immunosuppression, chronic kidney disease, neurologic conditions, chronic liver disease, obesity, death certificates, medical records
MeSH terms
COVID-19, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Chronic Disease, Ethnicity, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pneumonia, Viral, Risk Factors, United States, Coronavirus Infections, Racial Groups, Health Status Disparities, Young Adult, Pandemics, Public Health Surveillance

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