1,2; Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, MD3; Rebecca M. Dahl, MPH1; Patricia Schirmer, MD3; Shikha Garg, MD1,4; Gina Oda, MS3; Aron J. Hall, DVM1; Gayle Langley, MD1; Fiona P.
Havers, MD1; Mark Holodniy, MD3,5; Cristina V. Cardemil, MD1,4 (View author affiliations)Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are reported to be at risk for respiratory and nonrespiratory complications.Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in the Veterans Health Administration had a more than five times higher risk for in-hospital death and increased risk for 17 respiratory and nonrespiratory complications than did hospitalized patients with influenza.
The risks for sepsis and respiratory, neurologic, and renal complications of COVID-19 were higher among non-Hispanic Black or.