August 24, 2020

How Do Presenting Symptoms and Outcomes Differ by Race/Ethnicity Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Infection? Experience in Massachusetts

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): disparities, USA

• McCarty et al. found no association between race or ethnicity and COVID-19-associated morbidity and mortality after controlling for demographic and clinical characteristics (including age, gender, obesity, cardiopulmonary comorbidities, hypertensions, and diabetes) among a cohort of patients with COVID-19 (n=379) patients admitted to nine Massachusetts hospitals.

McCarty et al. (Aug 22, 2020). How Do Presenting Symptoms and Outcomes Differ by Race/Ethnicity Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Infection? Experience in Massachusetts. Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1245