Eusebi Chiner-Vives, Rosa Cordovilla-Pérez, David de la Rosa-Carrillo, Marta García-Clemente, José Luis Izquierdo-Alonso, Remedios Otero-Candelera, Luis Pérez-de Llano, Jacobo Sellares-Torres, José Ignacio de Granda-Orive
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. Till now, it affected 452.4 million (Spain, 11.18 million) persons all over the world with a total of 6.04 million of deaths (Spain, 100,992). It is observed that 75% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients have at least one COVID-19 associated comorbidity. It was shown that people with underlying chronic illnesses are more likely to get it and grow seriously ill. Individuals with COVID-19 who have a past medical history of cardiovascular disorder, cancer, obesity, chronic lung disease, diabetes, or neurological disease had the worst prognosis and are more likely to develop acute respiratory distress syndrome or pneumonia...
April 2022: Archivos de Bronconeumología