Clinical characteristics and risk factors for severe COVID-19 infections in Malaysia: A nationwide observational study

• Main Authors: Benedict Lim Heng Sim, MRCP (Author), Suresh Kumar Chidambaram, MRCP (Author), Xin Ci Wong, MDataSc (Author), Mohan Dass Pathmanathan, MD (Author), Kalaiarasu M. Peariasamy, FDSRCS (Author), Chee Peng Hor, MSc (Author), Hiu Jian Chua, MRCP (Author), Pik Pin Goh, FRCS (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: COVID-19 emerged as a major public health outbreak in late 2019. Malaysia reported its first imported case on 25th January 2020, and adopted a policy of extensive contact tracing and hospitalising of all cases. We describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 cases nationwid...