COVID-19 Intensive Care Admissions Have Twice the Corrected Mortality of non-COVID-19 Viral Pneumonia

Studying the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database has yielded results showing intensive care admissions by those infected with COVID-19 have twice the corrected mortality of patients presenting with non-COVID-19 viral pneumonia. A basis of an APACHE-II-like score denoted as “BASCA” is also outlined in this study.