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. 2024 Apr 4;7(4):e244954. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.4954

Table 1. Characteristics of Adults Hospitalized With RSV, COVID-19, or Influenza.

Characteristic Patients, No. (%)
RSV (n = 484) COVID-19 (n = 6422) Influenza (n = 1092)
Age, y
Median (IQR) 65 (53-75) 68 (56-78) 64 (50-74)
18-49 101 (20.9) 1145 (17.8) 271 (24.8)
50-59 84 (17.4) 883 (13.8) 157 (14.4)
60-69 114 (23.6) 1475 (23.0) 282 (25.8)
70-79 107 (22.1) 1500 (23.4) 217 (19.9)
≥80 78 (16.1) 1419 (22.1) 165 (15.1)
Race and ethnicity
Black or African American, non-Hispanic 115 (23.8) 1245 (19.4) 305 (27.9)
Hispanic or Latino, any race 78 (16.1) 789 (12.3) 182 (16.7)
White, non-Hispanic 248 (51.2) 3932 (61.2) 517 (47.3)
Other race, non-Hispanica 38 (7.9) 345 (5.4) 72 (6.6)
Otherb 5 (1.0) 111 (1.7) 16 (1.5)
Sex
Female 267 (55.2) 3183 (49.6) 597 (54.7)
Male 217 (44.8) 3239 (50.4) 495 (45.3)
HHS regionc
1 58 (12.0) 1175 (18.3) 146 (13.4)
2 42 (8.7) 285 (4.4) 101 (9.3)
3 14 (2.9) 329 (5.1) 15 (1.4)
4 98 (20.3) 1050 (16.4) 190 (17.4)
5 64 (13.2) 1096 (17.1) 218 (20.0)
6 37 (7.6) 672 (10.5) 141 (12.9)
7 49 (10.1) 389 (6.1) 75 (6.9)
8 75 (15.5) 754 (11.7) 147 (13.5)
9 29 (6.0) 385 (6.0) 28 (2.6)
10 18 (3.7) 287 (4.5) 31 (2.8)
Organ systems with a chronic medical conditiond
Median (IQR), No. 2 (2-3) 2 (1-3) 2 (1-3)
Cardiovascular disease 345 (71.3) 4603 (71.7) 741 (67.9)
Pulmonary disease 222 (45.9) 2019 (31.4) 454 (41.6)
Neurologic disease 60 (12.4) 1158 (18.0) 138 (12.6)
Gastrointestinal disease 25 (5.2) 507 (7.9) 71 (6.5)
Endocrine disease 184 (38.0) 2730 (42.5) 421 (38.6)
Kidney disease 125 (25.8) 1601 (24.9) 203 (18.6)
Hematologic disease 72 (14.9) 1024 (16.0) 136 (12.5)
Autoimmune disease 36 (7.4) 420 (6.5) 69 (6.3)
Immunocompromising conditionse 99 (20.5) 1135 (17.7) 149 (13.6)
Resident of long-term care facility 40 (8.3) 488 (7.6) 60 (5.5)
Outpatient medical visits in previous, median (IQR), No. 4 (3-5) 4 (3-5) 3 (2-5)
Time from illness onset to hospital admission, median (IQR), d 3 (1-4) 2 (0-4) 2 (1-4)
Symptoms and signs
Fever 168 (34.7) 2819 (43.9) 588 (53.9)
Cough 382 (78.9) 4138 (64.4) 855 (78.3)
Dyspnea 385 (79.6) 3916 (61.0) 788 (72.2)
Chest imaging with evidence of pneumonia 132 (27.3) 1423 (22.2) 250 (22.9)
COVID-19 vaccination statusf
Unvaccinated 78 (16.1) 1422 (22.1) 281 (25.7)
Vaccinatedg 402 (83.0) 5000 (77.9) 798 (73.1)
Influenza vaccination statush
Unvaccinated 226 (46.7) 3060 (47.7) 699 (64.0)
Vaccinatedi 216 (44.6) 2882 (44.9) 393 (36.0)

Abbreviations: HHS, US Department of Health and Human Services; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.

a

Other race, non-Hispanic includes Asian, Native American or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, which were combined because of small counts.

b

Other includes patients who self-reported their race and ethnicity as other and those for whom race and ethnicity were unknown.

c

Hospitals by US Department of HHS Region included region 1: Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Massachusetts), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); region 2: Montefiore Medical Center (New York City borough of the Bronx, New York); region 3: Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland); region 4: Emory University Medical Center (Atlanta, Georgia), University of Miami Medical Center (Miami, Florida), Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee), Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); region 5: Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio), Hennepin County Medical Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Henry Ford Health (Detroit, MI); The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio), University of Michigan Hospital (Ann Arbor, Michigan); region 6: Baylor Scott & White Medical Center (Temple, Texas), Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas, Texas); region 7: Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis, Missouri), University of Iowa Hospitals (Iowa City, Iowa); region 8: Intermountain Medical Center (Murray, Utah) and UCHealth, University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora, Colorado); region 9: University of Arizona Medical Center (Phoenix, Arizona), Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford, California), UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); and region 10: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (Portland, Oregon), University of Washington (Seattle, Washington).

d

Details of conditions within each group are listed in eTable 1 in Supplement 1.

e

Immunocompromising conditions were defined as active solid tumor or hematologic malignancy (ie, newly diagnosed malignancy or treatment for a malignancy within the previous 6 months), solid organ transplant; bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cell transplant, HIV infection, congenital immunodeficiency syndrome; or use of an immunosuppressive medication within the previous 30 days.

f

A total of 17 patients (0.2%) were missing COVID-19 vaccination status, including 4 patients with RSV (0.8%), 0 patients with COVID-19, and 13 patients with influenza (1.2%).

g

Includes patients with receipt of the original (ancestral strain) monovalent vaccines, specifically at least 2 doses of BNT1262b2, (Pfizer-BioNTech), mRNA-1273 (Moderna), or NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax), or at least 1 dose of Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen) or at least 1 dose of BNT1262b2 bivalent vaccine and mRNA-1273.222 bivalent vaccine. Patients who received bivalent vaccination may have previously received 1 to 5 doses of the original (ancestral strain) monovalent vaccines. The median (IQR) days from last COVID-19 vaccination to admission date among COVID-19 patients is 259 (152-407) days.

h

A total of 522 patients (6.5%) were missing influenza vaccination status, including 42 patients with RSV (8.7%), 480 patients with COVID-19 (7.5%), and 0 patients with influenza.

i

Patients were classified as vaccinated against influenza if they received the current season’s influenza vaccination based on the period in which they were enrolled.