COVID-19 among Chronic Dialysis Patients after First Year of Pandemic, Argentina

Abstract

We performed a descriptive study to characterize effects from COVID-19 among chronic dialysis patients compared with the general population in Argentina during March 2020–February 2021. COVID-19 case-fatality rate of chronic dialysis patients was 10 times the national rate; the age-standardized mortality ratio was 6.8 (95% CI 6.3–7.3).

Keywords

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• chronic renal insufficiency
• renal dialysis
• respiratory infections
• zoonoses