COVID-19 in persons with haematological cancers

• Published in: Leukemia Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 1637 - 1645
• Main Authors: He, Wenjuan, Chen, Lei, Chen, Li, Yuan, Guolin, Fang, Yun, Chen, Wenlan, Wu, Di, Liang, Bo, Lu, Xiaoting, Ma, Yanling, Li, Lei, Wang, Hongxiang, Chen, Zhichao, Li, Qiubai, Gale, Robert Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/1541/1990; 692/699/255; Adult; Betacoronavirus; Blood cancer; Cancer; Cancer Research; China - epidemiology; Cohort Studies; Comparative analysis; Confidence intervals; Coronavirus Infections - complications; Coronavirus Infections - transmission; Coronavirus Infections - virology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Critical Care Medicine; Development and progression; Fatalities; Female; Health aspects; Health care; Health care industry; Hematologic Neoplasms - complications; Hematologic Neoplasms - epidemiology; Hematology; Humans; Incidence; Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional - statistics & numerical data; Infectious diseases; Intensive; Internal Medicine; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Oncology; Oncology, Experimental; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral - complications; Pneumonia, Viral - transmission; Pneumonia, Viral - virology; Public health; Risk analysis; Risk factors; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Viral diseases; Young Adult; China; United Kingdom

Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the cause of coronavirus infectious disease–19 (COVID-19), has caused a pandemic with >850,000 cases worldwide and increasing. Several studies report outcomes of COVID-19 in predominately well persons. There are also some data on COVID-19 in persons with predominately s...