• César A Arce-Salinas, Daniel López-Herrera, Adriana Hernández-Alarcón, Eva M Luna-Rivera, Arely A Bejarano-Juvera, Aditi K Bustamante-Flores, Naomi Aguilar-Martínez, Jessica G Azcorra-López, Berenice Cabañas-Espinosa, Yamile N Esquivel-Torruco, and Jesús Reyna-Figueroa.
• Director's Office.
• Gac Med Mex. 2021 Jan 1; 157 (3): 257-262.

IntroductionAs a result of COVID-19, many hospitals underwent a conversion for the care for this disease.ObjectiveTo analyze COVID-19 hospital epidemiological behavior from March to August 2020.MethodsThrough a series of cases, COVID-19 epidemiological behavior at the hospital was analyzed, for which simple case rates, percentages and incidence of COVID-19 per 100 hospital discharges were estimated.ResultsOut of 491 subjects who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, 156 (31.7 %) were hospitalized for clinical data of moderate to severe disease. Average age was 59.1 years; 121 cases (75 %) were discharged due to improvement, and 32 (20.5 %), due to death. Average age of those who died was 69.7 years, and the most affected age group was 60 to 80 years (45.4 %). Calculated lethality was 20.5 per 100 hospital discharges, while that calculated taking into account positive patients (outpatients and hospitalized patients) was 6.5.ConclusionsCOVID-19 epidemiological behavior was similar to that described in other studies; however, lethality and mortality are above national average. The analysis of this and of the factors that favored it in our population is pending.Copyright: © 2021 Permanyer.

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