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Older people with COVID bad enough that they end up in the hospital usually stay there for 3-6 weeks

• dboreham 6y ago
  Data from personal friends contradicts this. 2-8 days in my sample.
  • iso1631 6y ago
    That's called an annectdote. https://www.kpcnews.com/covid-19/article_8ab408ad-8fb0-5f74-8d57-11e586bd8a4f.html https://www.kpcnews.com/covid-19/article_8ab408ad-8fb0-5f74-... Overall, the average hospital stay for COVID-19 for all ages is 22.4 days, just over three weeks. The length of stay is slightly longer, 23.5 days, for regular hospital admissions and shorter for ICU patients at 16 days, likely because ICU patients go on to die in the hospital. That's based over thousands of patients. > Patients in their 50s, who make up the third largest group of hospitalizations at 17.8% of all admissions, have, to date, had the longest average hospital stays at 27.5 days on average. > Older patients have slightly lower average stays than middle-aged Hoosiers — again, likely because they are more prone to die in care than younger patients > The average stays for patients in their 30s is 16.4 days
    • dboreham 6y ago
      > That's called an annectdote. Oh look: this data matches my annecdote(sic): https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01726-3/figures/4 https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
      • iso1631 6y ago
        That study specifically says "There were too few studies to conduct any comparison by age or disease severity. " It also dates back from a year ago, under very different circumstances to today