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Risk factors associated with mortality have been studied, but this study provides insight regarding disease progression and hence help to plan rescue strategies to improve patient outcome.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Material and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This retrospective, observational study included all patients with diagnosis of COVID-19 from March1 to June30,2021 who died in hospital.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>During the study period, 1600 patients were admitted, with 1138 (71%) needing ICU care. There were 346 (21.6%) deaths, distributed as 15.8%(n = 55) within 48h of admission, 46.2%(n = 160) in next 10 days, and 37.8%(n = 131) thereafter. This trimodal mortality pattern of distribution was similar to polytrauma patients. Patients were divided into categories according to time duration from admission to death. In our cohort, 235 (14.7%) patients required mechanical ventilation, with a mortality of 85.4%(n = 201). Tachypnea was significantly (P &lt; 0.001) associated with death at all times; however, hypotension was associated with early death and low oxygen saturation with poor outcome upto 10 days (P &lt; 0.001). Refractory hypoxia was cause of death in all three groups, while other causes in group II were AKI (28%), sepsis (18%), and MODS (10%). Group III patients had different causes of mortality, including barotrauma (9%), pulmonary thromboembolism (8%), refractory hypercarbia (12%), MODS (13%), AKI (10%), sepsis (7%), and cardiac events (6%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>While physiological dearrangements are associated with rapid progression and early death, complications related to hyper-coagulable state, lung injury, and organ failure lead to death later. 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