717110login-checkCDC: Dialysis Patients Carry Heavier COVID Burden |
— Vaccination reduced some of the excess risk, agency says
By Michele Sullivan
Patients on maintenance dialysis had somewhat higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections and related deaths than seen in the general U.S. population, although immunization mitigated some of the excess risk, the CDC reported.
From June 30, 2021, to Sept. 27, 2022, the overall infection rate per 10,000 patient-weeks was 30.47 among maintenance dialysis patients, with a range from 20.13-46.45 across the different waves of variants compared with 17.13-43.62 per 10,000 population-weeks in the general population. Read the full article in MedPage Today.
717110login-checkCDC: Dialysis Patients Carry Heavier COVID Burden |