In a new study (published February 2021) conducted by researchers from the Ontario Renal Network at Western University in London (Ontario, Canada), disease characteristics and death rate between long-term dialysis patients with and without COVID-19 infection have been analyzed for March 12 to August 20, 2020.
"Of the 187 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, 53 (28.3%) died and 117 (62.6%) were admitted to hospital (37 [19.8%] were admit-ted to ICU and 28 [15%] received mechanical ventilation). During the same period, non-infected patients had a mortality rate of 5.8% and a hospital admission rate of 27%. Among those patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, our multivariable analysis showed that only older age was predictive of mortality"
The study authors conclude:
"Patients undergoing dialysis in Ontario who had a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection had a case fatality rate almost 4 times higher than that reported for the general Ontario population for the same period. Therefore, as the COVID-19 pandemic proceeds, focused efforts should be made to protect this population from infection including prioritizing patients on long-term dialysis and the staff treating them for SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (...)."
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