Association of Race and Ethnicity With Comorbidities and Survival Among Patients With COVID-19 at an Urban Medical Center in New York

The authors conducted a cohort study of 5,902 patients who presented for care to a large urban academic medical center in New York between March 14 and April 15, 2020 to determine if race/ethnicity resulted in differences in comorbidities in patients with COVID-19, or in “case fatality rates among ethnic and racial groups when controlling for key risk factors.” The authors concluded that Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black patients had a greater proportion of comorbidities vs. non-Hispanic Whites but did not experience higher case fatality rates when controlling for age, sex, socioeconomic status and comorbidities.