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Correspondence
Patients with lupus are not protected from COVID-19
  1. Amr H Sawalha
  1. Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine and Lupus Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Amr H Sawalha, Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; asawalha{at}umich.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217656

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    The comment provided by Joob and Wiwanitkit contains serious factual errors that need to be urgently corrected to prevent harm to patients.1 Their claim that ‘there is no case of SLE with covid-19’ is false. It is puzzling how they can make such a claim without providing supporting evidence. An initial analysis of patients included in the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance registry shows that 19 (17%) of 110 patients with rheumatic diseases who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as of 1 April 2020 were patients with lupus.2 The frequency of patients with lupus who have …

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    • Contributors The author fulfilled the following criteria: substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version published.

    • Funding AHS is funded by the Lupus Research Alliance and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health grant number R01AR070148.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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