Increased Lengths of Stay, ICU, and Ventilator Days in Trauma Patients with Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection.

Trauma patients presenting positive for COVID-19 are presumed to be asymptomatic before their traumatic event. Despite this, the physiologic toll of trauma combined with the COVID infection causes significantly worse clinical outcomes, including increasing hospital days in this patient population, which continues to tax the already burdened healthcare system.