Figure 2. Comorbidity Distributions of the SARS-CoV-2–Positive Cohort (N = 174 568).

See eMethods in Supplement 1 for comorbidity definitions. Patients were stratified using the Clinical Progression Scale (CPS) established by the World Health Organization (WHO) for COVID-19 clinical research (Table).⁷ Severity assigned by patient-specific encounter maximum severity. No ED indicates outpatient only without emergency department visit; ED, emergency department visit; moderate, hospitalized without invasive ventilatory support or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); severe, hospitalized with invasive ventilatory support or ECMO; mortality/hospice, hospital death or discharge to hospice.