covid-19 increased from 23% in the first wave to 33% during the second wave, showed a study published in Kidney International Reports, a nephrology journal.
Researchers studied 14,573 dialysis patients in the first wave. Out of the number infected with covid-19, 99% were hospitalised for an average of 12 days and mortality rate stood at 23%.
The study further sampled 17,662 patients in the second wave. 1,111 or 6.2% of the screened patients were infected with covid-19 and a staggering mortality of 32.76% was observed amongst these patients. “This is far greater than mortality recorded in 2019 within the same period.
Age is another important variable that comes to bear in the study. The mean age of covid-19 -infected people was 53.63, with