id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-280358-ru2hv6pz Auvinen, R. Comparison of the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized adult COVID-19 and influenza patients: a prospective observational study 2020-06-29 .txt text/plain 4219 271 50 title: Comparison of the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized adult COVID-19 and influenza patients: a prospective observational study Objective We compared the clinical characteristics, findings and outcomes of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or influenza to detect relevant differences. Our prospective population-based influenza study was already recruiting hospitalized adult patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), which gave us the opportunity to enroll COVID-19 patients since the beginning of the outbreak. In previous studies, along with age and other comorbidities, obesity has been a risk factor for severe disease and ICU admission in both COVID-19 and influenza, which supports our findings [30, 31] . . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.29.20140632 doi: medRxiv preprint epidemic, occasionally SARS-CoV-2 detection alone was conducted without influenza testing on clinical grounds, however, of the COVID-19 patients included in this study, 21 (75%) were tested for influenza and no co-infections were found. ./cache/cord-280358-ru2hv6pz.txt ./txt/cord-280358-ru2hv6pz.txt