NIAIDScreening people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 for hepatitis C or hepatitis B does not lead to detection of a large number of undiagnosed infections and is likely to be of limited use in reducing the number of undiagnosed infections, Spanish researchers have concluded after evaluating screening outcomes in 2020.
Their evaluation findings, published in the journal Gastroenterologia y Hepatologia, show that just three chronic hepatitis C infections were detected among 4,662 people with COVID-19 admitted to hospitals in Leon and Burgos in 2020. Two of these were diagnosed in men aged 90 and over, the other in a person who died of COVID-19.
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