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Epidemiological Profile and Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in the Philippines

2020-07-20 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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The Philippines confirmed local transmission of COVID-19 on 7 March 2020. We described the characteristics and epidemiological time-to-event distributions for laboratory-confirmed cases in the Philippines. The median age of 8,212 cases was 46 years (IQR: 32-61), with 46.2% being female and 68.8% living in the National Capital Region. Health care workers represented 24.7% of all detected infections. Mean length of hospitalization for those who were discharged or died were 16.00 days (95% CI: 15.4...

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