Cork University Hospital research creates better understanding of Covid-19

Dr Joe Eustace, who is overseeing the research as director of the HRB Clinical Research Facility at UCC, said the criteria for admitting patients had changed a lot. File picture.

Diabetes, cardiac disease, asthma, chronic pulmonary (lung) disease, and obesity are the five conditions most frequently identified in patients with underlying health issues admitted to Cork University Hospital for treatment of Covid-19.

That is according to ongoing research by University College Cork (UCC) nurses, who are gathering anonymised clinical data on hospitalised patients and feeding it into a global registry designed to create a better understanding of the occurrence and nature of the virus.