How Do Presenting Symptoms and Outcomes Differ by Race/Ethnicity Among Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection? Experience in Massachusetts.
Thomas R McCartyKelly E HathornWalker D ReddNicolette J RodriguezJoyce C ZhouAhmad Najdat BazarbashiCheikh NjieDanny WongQuoc-Dien TrinhLin ShenValerie E StoneWalter W ChanPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
In this multicenter cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the largest health system in Massachusetts, there was no association between race/ethnicity and clinically relevant hospitalization outcomes, including in-hospital mortality, after controlling for key demographic/clinical characteristics. These findings serve to refute suggestions that certain races/ethnicities may be biologically predisposed to poorer COVID-19 outcomes.