Term:Severe course of COVID-19

Related terms

• (can result in) hospitalization and even intensive care with mechanical ventilation
• (can be prevented by) coronavirus vaccine

Normative

Variants and synonyms

• severe acute respiratory syndrome
• severe covid-19

Examples

It has been theorized that NSAIDs, due to upregulation in ACE2 in human target cells, may lead to an increased risk of infection or a more severe course of COVID-19 in those taking NSAIDs.

Source: https://www.idsociety.org/globalassets/idsa/practice-guidelines/covid-19/treatment/idsa-covid-19-gl-tx-and-mgmt-v4.4.1.pdf

Keyness

• Severe course of COVID-19: >1000
• severe acute respiratory syndrome: 39
• severe covid-19: 127

Note

Only two occurrences of the lemma were found in the corpus.

Research

Definition/description

We should note, though, that this evidence is based on limited data, while reports from SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and from other respiratory infections suggest these conclusions are premature and pregnant women could be at risk of a severe course of COVID-19 (Rasmussen et al., 2020).

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159120303664?via%3Dihub

Keyness

>1000

Note

There is 1 result in total in the concordance search for “severe course of COVID-19”, see Definition/description section.

Press

The concept is absent from the corpus.

Comments

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