Determinants of the severity of chronic illness of Patients with COVID-19 among patients at Eka Kottebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020/21

Background: Coronavirus is a zoonotic disease caused by coronavirus 2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) which was discovered on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.  Methodology: The study population was the patients of COVID-19 treated at Eka Kottebe General Hospital from March 2020 to December 2020. Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and stereotype ordinal logistic regression model were used to analyze our data.  Result: Out of the total (454) patients considered in the study, about 240 (52.86%), 60 (13.22%), 106 (23.35%), and 48 (10.57%) patients were in mild, moderate, severe, and critical stage, respectively. Independent variables like sex, presence of a symptom, fever, headache, chest pain, and shortness of breath, general weakness, cough, co-morbid, diabetes mullets, and hypertension had a significant association with the severity of illness at a 5% level of significance. The stereotype ordinal logistic regression result shows that sex, age, presence of symptoms, shortness of breath, general weakness, and co-morbidity had a significant effect on the severity of illness in patients with COVID-19.   Conclusion: Being male, increasing in age, being symptomatic, having shortness of breath, having general weakness, and having any co-morbidity had led to more severe stage illness in patients.