Mortality rates among ICU patients aged 70 years and older were considerably higher in those with COVID-19 compared with those who had bacterial or other viral pneumonia, according to researchers.
Lenneke E. M. Haas, MD, PhD, from the department of intensive care at Diakonessenhuis, Utrecht Hospital in the Netherlands, and colleagues wrote that advanced age poses a significant risk factor for severe COVID-19 and adverse health outcomes; however, “literature about outcomes of older patients admitted to the ICU because of other pneumonia and the relation of their outcome with several