Epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Mexico: A Report on Age-Sex Variation in the Duration from Symptom Onset to Fatality as an Outcome in Patients

Sofía E. Aguiñaga-Malanco, Sudip Datta-Banik*, Rudradeep Datta-Banik and Nina Mendez-Dominguez

Epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Mexico: A Report on Age-Sex Variation in the Duration from Symptom Onset to Fatality as an Outcome in Patients To describe age-sex differences in the duration from symptom onset to fatality as an outcome in coronavirus desease 2019 patients.

Proportionally more deaths occurred among male patients (64%). Median duration was eight days from onset of symptoms until death; mean value was approximately 10-days.
The present study shows number of deaths due to COVID-19 was higher among adults that was more noticeable in
50-years of age and above.

Female patients survived relatively lower number of days with infection until death, compared to males. In this descriptive study, the Mexican surveillance system COVID-19 database up to 15th August 2020 was used between 1st January and 15th August 2020. Total number of deaths registered during this period was 70,515 cases.

Susceptibility to death in COVID-19 is associated with comorbidities such as cardiovascular, respiratory, chronic kidney diseases, diabetes, etc. In addition, severity enhanced the complications; 66.5% of COVID-19 patients in Mexico developed pneumonia. A study from the US reported the duration of hospitalization of the COVID-19 survivors and non-survivors; the estimated median value of duration of stay was 9.3-days among survivors (0.8 to 32.9-days) and 12.7-days (1.6 to 37.7-days) among non-survivors. Similar report was not available from Mexico.

It is worthy to mention the shortcomings of the present study. Association of socio-demographic characteristics and lifestyle habits with COVID-19 mortality, regional, ethnic, rural, and urban differences from different Mexican States could enrich the results that will be explored in future studies.

Anthropol Open J. 2020; 4(1): 20-23. doi: 10.17140/ANTPOJ-4-122

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