Missed Opportunities of Making a Real IMPACT By Early COVID-19 Studies

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions associated with COVID-19 illness were recognized as critical health issues that contributed to morbidity and mortality in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients. COVID-19 symptoms overlap with other well-characterized viral infections, including the flu; thus, it is important that peer-reviewed and published data reports for COVID-19 patients do not include patients that are in fact SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)-negative. Several risk factors have been identified that…