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Dialysis patients at nearly 4 times the risk for COVID death – CIDRAP
Patients on long-term dialysis were also more than 5 times likelier to be infected.
Patients undergoing long-term dialysis were more than five times likelier to be infected with COVID-19 and nearly four times as likely to die than the general population, suggesting that they should be prioritized for vaccination, according to a Canadian study published today in CMAJ.
In the study, researchers from the Ontario Renal Network at Western University in London, Ontario, compared disease characteristics and death rate between long-term dialysis patients with and without COVID-19 infection…
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