Aysun Tekin, Shahraz Qamar, Vikas Bansal, Salim Surani, Romil Singh, Mayank Sharma, Allison M LeMahieu, Andrew C Hanson, Phillip J Schulte, Marija Bogojevic, Neha Deo, Devang K Sanghavi, Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Nitesh K Jain, Amy B Christie, Uluhan Sili, Harry L Anderson, Joshua L Denson, Ashish K Khanna, Igor Borisovich Zabolotskikh, Abigail T La Nou, Murtaza Akhter, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Kenneth W Dodd, Lynn Retford, Karen Boman, Vishakha K Kumar, Allan J Walkey, Ognjen Gajic, Juan Pablo Domecq, Rahul Kashyap
BACKGROUND: Better delineation of COVID-19 presentations in different climatological conditions might assist with prompt diagnosis and isolation of patients. OBJECTIVES: To study the association of latitude and altitude with COVID-19 symptomatology. METHODS: This observational cohort study included 12267 adult COVID-19 patients hospitalized between 03/2020 and 01/2021 at 181 hospitals in 24 countries within the SCCM Discovery VIRUS: COVID-19 Registry...
2022: Open Respiratory Medicine Journal