Outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Canada: impact of ethnicity, migration status and country of birth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethnoracial groups in high-income countries have a 2-fold higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, associated hospitalizations, and mortality than Whites. Migrants are an ethnoracial subset that may have worse COVID-19 outcomes due to additional barriers accessing care, but there are limited data on in-hospital outcomes. We aimed to disaggregate and compare COVID-19 associated hospital outcomes by ethnicity, immigrant status and region of birth.

Methods

Adults with community-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection, hospitalized March 1-June 30, 2020, at four hospitals in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, were included. Age, sex, socioeconomic status, comorbidities, migration status, region of birth, self-identified ethnicity [White, Black, Asian, Latino, Middle East/North African], int

SUBMITTER: Passos-Castilho AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9047205 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature