Hospital mortality – A look at the current situation

A representative cohort study with data from more than 5000 hospitalized patients in Switzerland showed that compared with influenza A or B, the corona variant omicron was associated with a 1.5-fold increased risk of mortality. Prof. Dr. Christoph Spinner, Senior Physician for Clinical Infectiology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich, gives an overview of the current COVID situation with regard to hospital mortality [1].