The cross-sectional study of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients in Xiangyang, Hubei province

Jinwei Ai; Junwen Chen; Yong Wang; Xiaoyun Liu; Wufeng Fan; Gaojing Qu; Meiling Zhang; Shengduo Polo Pei; Bowen Tang; Shuai Yuan; Yang Li; Lisha Wang; Guoxin Huang; Bin Pei

Only two cases were under 18 years old (one case with 15 and 1.5 years old), which indicated that people with good health status and immunity were not susceptible. The majority of our patients were 50 to 70 years old with common chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, chronic bronchitis, etc. Those people have low immunity, organic damage, and decreased body regulation, which may explain the high incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this age group [15] . In addition, disease severity and fatality were higher among the elderly compared with the rest cases. The three deaths in this study were 72, 73 and 78 years old. Among three deaths, one was infected with SARS-CoV-2 after recent lung cancer surgery, one had diabetes, ischemic cardiomyopathy, and hyperthyroidism, and one had hypertension and coronary heart disease [16, 17] . In the absence of cure, it is essential to protect the elderly population, and therefore, to reduce the incidence. Meanwhile, early . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.