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Response to: ‘Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on patients with SLE: results of a large multicentric survey from India’ by Goyal et al
  1. Alexis Mathian,
  2. Zahir Amoura
  1. Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome and Other Autoimmune Disorders, Service de Médecine Interne 2, Institut E3M, Inserm UMRS, Centre d’Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses (CIMI-Paris), Paris, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alexis Mathian, Internal Medicine, University Hospital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris 75651, France; alexis.mathian{at}aphp.fr

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218146

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    We thank Goyal et al for their interest in our study reporting on the course of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a case series of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) under long-term treatment with hydroxychloroquine.1 2 Goyal et al, on a series of 845 patients with SLE, reported symptoms compatible with COVID-19 in 17 (2.0%) and confirmed COVID-19 in only 1 (0.1%) of the patients. The very low frequency of COVID-19 in these patients reflects the low incidence of SARS-Cov-2 infection in the Indian population at the completion of their study. However, since then, the …

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    • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

    • Contributors AM and ZA wrote the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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