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COVID-19 Scan for May 17, 2021

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Comorbidities, racial disparity found in homeless hospital COVID patientsAlmost two thirds of homeless patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were of non-White descent and more than 80% had at least one comorbidity, according to a descriptive study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases yesterday.The researchers analyzed 199 COVID-hospitalized adults who were experiencing homelessness out of the 2,872 (30.2%) patients in the COVID-NET database with homelessness status from Mar 1 to May 31, 2020.

The cohort was 82.9% men, had a median age of 53 years, and were mostly non-White (63.3%).When analyzing the patient data, the researchers used weighted percentages (WPs) to reflect what the population estimates would be if every medical record they

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