• Jean-Luc Murk, Rik van de Biggelaar, Joep Stohr, Jaco Verweij, Anton Buiting, Sabine Wittens, Martijn van Hooft, Bram Diederen, Yvette Kluiters-de Hingh, Erik Ranschaer, Annemarie Brouwer, Jeroen Retera, Margot Verheijen, Dharmanand Ramnarain, Ivo van Ek, and Jos van Oers.
• Elisabeth-Tweesteden Ziekenhuis, afd. Medische Microbiologie en Immunologie, Tilburg.
• Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2020 Apr 2; 164.

AbstractHere we describe the characteristics of the first 100 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital (Tilburg, The Netherlands). The median age was 72 years, 67% was male, approximately 80% had co-morbidity, approximately 50% of which consisted of hypertension, cardiac and or pulmonary conditions and 25% diabetes. At admission 61% of patients had fever and about 50% presented at day 6 or more after onset of symptoms. At the time of writing 38 patients were discharged, 19 admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and 20 patients had died. The median age of ICU patients was 67 years and 63% had co-morbidity. The median time to discharge or to death was 6 and 5.5 days, respectively.

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