Introduction: COVID-19 arrived as a new disease entity to the UK in early 2020 As one of the tertiary hospitals to admit COVID-19 patients, we collected data in order to characterise patients

Method: Data was collected on 771 patients admitted with confirmed COVID-19 during the first 3 months of the pandemic, who had already been discharged or died Presenting symptoms, co-morbidities, frailty, observations, ethnicity and mortality were noted

Results: The median age was 72 with a median clinical frailty score (CFS) and Charlson co-morbidity index (CCI) of 4 The most frequently reported symptoms were fever (62 %), cough (60 %) and breathlessness (57 %) but older patients had more presentations with falls (34 %) and confusion (37 %) Older patients presented earlier compared with younger patients (2 vs 7 days) Patients with a CCI of 0 had a median age of 38 and frailty score of 2, whilst patients with CCI & gt; 5 had a median age of 82 and frailty score of 6 The most common co-morbidities were hypertension (42 %), diabetes mellitus (31 %) and chronic respiratory disease (16 %) Data on ethnicity and mortality is undergoing further analysis Conclusion: This is a large single site cohort of COVID-19 patients Older patients presented sooner after symptom onset They were more likely to present with falls and confusion and have a higher frailty score and co-morbidity index Further multivariate analysis is ongoing to examine additional variables