Deaths Due to COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer During Different Waves of the Pandemic in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

With the ongoing relaxation of guidelines to prevent COVID-19 transmission, particularly in hospital settings, medically vulnerable groups, such as patients with cancer, may experience a disparate burden of COVID-19 mortality compared with the general population.

Objective

To evaluate COVID-19 mortality among US patients with cancer compared with the general US population during different waves of the pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database to examine COVID-19 mortality among US patients with cancer and the general population from March 1, 2020, to May 31, 2022. The number of deaths due to COVID-19 during

SUBMITTER: Potter AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10472259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature