Clinical-epidemiologic characteristics of the patients admitted in the Hospital “Amalia Simoni” during the Covid-19 pandemics

Abstract

Introduction: from the end of the last year in Wuhan, China, it was informed an unknown etiology pneumonia leading the World Health Organization to declare the infection with SARS-CoV-2 a sanitary emergency naming it coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). A confrontation program was elaborated in Cuba, in which hospital care followed a rigorous protocol to take care to Covid-19-positive patients in areas of minimal, intensive and progressive care.
Objective: to clinically/epidemiologically characterize Covid-19-positive patients admitted in the Hospital “Amalia Simoni”.
Materials and methods: a cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out in 1 066 patients admitted in the Hospital “Amalia Simoni” in the period March-May 2020. Clinical records were reviewed and data gathered were age, sex, origin, symptomatology, co-morbidities and epidemiological evolution, data obtained through descriptive statistics.
Results: it was found the predominance of medium age, without sex differences; the cases of patients from the city of Camaguey and from the municipalities with biggest urbanization predominated. Cough and fever prevailed; half of cases did not have comorbidities, and only a little percent of cases was confirmed.
Conclusions: with an approach based in preventive medicine, medium age, and provenance from urban areas with bigger population and social concentrations   predominated in the studied cases. It was showed that precocious admission, based on the Primary Health Care screening, succeeded in diminish confirmed cases to a little percent, as diminished the seriously ill ones; only one patient died.