Table 6.

CURB-65 of Patients with Fatal COVID-19

CURB-65	n (%) (n = 85)*	Procalcitonin Level† (Mean ± SEM) (n = 85)	Data from Zhou and Colleagues (n = 54)*‡ [n (%)]
Mean CURB-65 ± SEM	1.9 ± 1.1	—	—
Grades
0	8 (9.4)	1.00 ± 1.61	16 (30)
1	27 (31.8)	0.87 ± 1.81
2	25 (29.4)	1.10 ± 1.91	23 (43)
3	20 (23.5)	4.19 ± 8.52	15 (28)
4	3 (3.5)	29.44 ± 50.22
5	2 (2.4)	1.58 ± n.a.

Definition of abbreviations: COVID-19 = coronavirus disease; CURB-65 = confusion, urea, respiratory rate, blood pressure, age ≥65 years; n.a. = not applicable.

^*A total of 85 patients from our study compared to 54 patients from the study by Zhou and colleagues.

^†P = 0.656, calculated using the Kruskal-Wallis H test for comparing multiple groups.

^‡Grades grouped into three: 0–1, 2, and 3–5.