High serum lactate dehydrogenase and dyspnea: Positive predictors of adverse outcome in critical COVID-19 patients in Yichang

Figure 4 Proportion of non-survivors with detectable severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 until death in the alveolitis and fibrosis phase. All non-survivors (100.0%) who died in the alveolitis stage had a persistent positive test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 until death. Only 5 patients (35.7%) who died in the pulmonary fibrosis stage had positive virus nucleic acid test results. SARS-CoV-2: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.