COVID-19 Outcomes Tied to Hospital, Not Just Race

November 23, 2020

(Medscape) – Findings from a national registry reinforce the role racial health disparities play in COVID-19 outcomes but also highlight the contribution hospitals make to the variation in poor outcomes. Researchers studied 7868 patients hospitalized across 88 sites from January 1 to July 22 of this year in the American Heart Association’s COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Registry, established early in the pandemic to better understand hospital outcomes and CV complications.