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Pseudo-safety in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 discharged home from the emergency department.

Neal YuanHongwei JiNancy SunPatrick BottingTrevor NguyenSam TorbatiSusan C ChengJoseph Ebinger
Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2021)
Patients infected with COVID-19 may appear clinically safe for home convalescence. However, those with hypertension, diabetes, chronic lung disease and fever may in fact be only 'pseudo-safe' and are most at risk for subsequent hospitalisation with more severe illness and longer hospital stays.
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