Table 3. Receipt of Corticosteroids Among Patients in ISARIC Data Set With Severe or Critical COVID-19 Disease, by Time Period and World Health Organization Geographic Region.
Period | Patients, No. (%) [Bonferroni-corrected 95% CI] | ||||||
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Global | Africa | Americas | Eastern Mediterranean | Europe | South-East Asia | Western Pacific | |
January 31 to May 31, 2020 | 16 312 of 63 017 (25.9) [25.3-26.4] | 119 of 2363 (5.0) [3.7-6.4] | 2098 of 5970 (35.1) [33.2-37.0] | 501 of 999 (50.2) [45.3-55.0] | 13 321 of 52 650 (25.3) [24.7-25.9] | 67 of 242 (27.7) [18.8-36.5] | 206 of 793 (26.0) [21.2-30.8] |
June 1 to August 31, 2020 | 11 791 of 43 764 (26.9) [26.3-27.6] | 5495 of 33 975 (16.2) [15.6-16.8] | 1528 of 2102 (72.7) [69.7-75.7] | 1149 of 1912 (60.1) [56.6-63.5] | 2675 of 4458 (60.0) [57.7-62.3] | 735 of 1076 (68.3) [63.9-72.7] | 209 of 241 (86.7) [80.0-93.5] |
September 1, 2020, to September 1, 2022 | 146 204 of 328 070 (44.6) [44.3-44.8] | 31 588 of 185 191 (17.1) [16.8-17.3] | 5421 of 6095 (88.9) [87.7-90.2] | 4447 of 6434 (69.1) [67.3-70.9] | 99 434 of 123 077 (80.8) [80.4-81.1] | 4895 of 6715 (72.9) [71.2-74.6] | 419 of 558 (75.1) [69.5-80.7] |
Abbreviation: ISARIC, International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium.