Characteristics of deceased patients with CoVID-19 after the first peak of the epidemic in Fars province, Iran

Amir Emami; Fatemeh Javanmardi; Ali Akbari; Mohsen Moghadami; Hamid Bakhtiari; Farshad Falahati; Leila Hashemi Zadeh Fard Haghighi; Tahereh Rezaei

doi:10.1080/20008686.2020.1781330

Characteristics of deceased patients with CoVID-19 after the first peak of the epidemic in Fars province, Iran

Infect Ecol Epidemiol. 2020 Jun 17;10(1):1781330. doi: 10.1080/20008686.2020.1781330.

Authors

Amir Emami¹, Fatemeh Javanmardi¹, Ali Akbari², Mohsen Moghadami³, Hamid Bakhtiari⁴, Farshad Falahati⁵, Leila Hashemi Zadeh Fard Haghighi⁵, Tahereh Rezaei⁵

Affiliations

¹ Microbiology Department, Burn & Wound Healing Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
² Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
³ Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
⁴ Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Center of Disease Control (CDC), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
⁵ Vice Chancellor for Treatment, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Emergence of a new coronavirus causes a serious concern whether this can be stopped at all. The ongoing coronavirus disease created a substantial variation in the fatality rate over the world. The current report brought an explore about the epidemiological characteristics of deceased patients and the fatality rate after the first peak in Fars province which is the fourth most populous and large province in Iran. Of the 3702 confirmed cases with coVID-19, 87 patients passed away and so the fatality rate estimated 2.35. Also, it was derived that male sex, old age and underlying diseases especially diabetes were common characteristics of these victims.

Keywords: Covid-19; Death; Iran; fatality rate.

Grants and funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, or publication of this article.