Predictors of Illness Severity in COVID-19 Cases in Saudi Arabia.

Reem A Al Dossary Amani M AlnimrReem AljindanKhaled R AlkharsahAhmed K Al-QuraynObeid EltreifiFeras A AlkuwaitiAbdullah B AlmashoufAhmed M AlsahlawiAmal AlshammariDhoha HudhaiahMohammed Saeed Saad AlshahraniHuda Bukhari

Published in: Infection and drug resistance (2021)

Age, sex, and ethnicity are important predictors of COVID-19 severity. The cycle threshold (Ct) of the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test cannot be used as a predictor of the criticality of illness.

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