Two new studies highlight a greater illness burden of COVID-19 in black cancer patients, with one showing a 57% higher rate of hospitalization for gynecologic cancer and the other demonstrating a 58% higher COVID-19 rate among all cancer patients and a 29% higher risk of a hospital stay.Disparities in NYC gynecology cancer patientsNearly 72% of black patients with gynecologic cancer and COVID-19 were hospitalized compared with 46% of non-black patients, a 56.5% higher level, according to the first study, which was published in Cancer.
Black patients made up only 34.7% of the study cohort.Out of 193 New York City adult patients who had gynecologic cancer and COVID-19, 106 (54.9%) needed hospitalization from Mar 1 to May 20.