Table 5.
Final diagnoses during the first five waves of the pandemic.
| First Wave n = 134 |
Second Wave n = 212 |
Third Wave n = 247 |
Fourth Wave n = 694 |
Fifth Wave n = 57 |
p -Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper respiratory tract infection | 49 43.8% |
99 56.9% |
95 49.0% |
277 54.6% |
304 73.4% |
<0.001 |
| Lower respiratory tract infection | 56 50.0% |
53 30.5% |
63 32.5% |
162 32.0% |
68 16.4% |
<0.001 |
| Gastroenterocolitis | 10 8.9% |
26 15.1% |
32 16.5% |
68 13.4% |
101 24.4% |
<0.001 |
| Neurological diagnoses | 5 4.5% |
1 0.6% |
16 8.2% |
84 16.6% |
41 9.9% |
<0.001 |
| Other | 14 12.5% |
33 19.1% |
41 21.1% |
103 20.3% |
61 14.7% |
0.07 |
n, number of diagnoses. Data are presented as n (%); p-value for chi-squared test.