Clinical symptoms, comorbidities and health outcomes among outpatients infected with the common cold coronaviruses versus influenza virus

Table 2 Health outcomes within a year following common cold coronaviruses and influenza virus index infections

Health outcomes	ccCoV	Influenza	P value^a
Health outcomes	N = 205 (%)	N = 417 (%)	P value^a
Primary care visits with symptoms of RTI within a year	56 (27.3)	115 (27.6)	1
Primary care visits for non-RTI reasons within a year	89 (43.4)	381 (91.4)	< 0.0001*
All-cause hospital admission within a year	9 (4.4)	38 (9.1)	0.051
One-year mortality	3 (1.5)	10 (2.4)	0.561

Abbreviations: ccCoV, common cold coronaviruses; RTI, respiratory tract infection.
^aP value calculated from χ² test or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate.
* P < 0.05 is statistically significant.
Unknown/missing data were removed from the analysis

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