Chris Bates

TL;DR: A range of clinical factors associated with COVID-19-related death is quantified in one of the largest cohort studies on this topic so far and includes people of white ethnicity, Black and South Asian people were at higher risk, even after adjustment for other factors.

TL;DR: Routine implementation of the eFI could enable delivery of evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for this vulnerable group of older people with mild, moderate and severe frailty, with robust predictive validity for outcomes of mortality, hospitalisation and nursing home admission.

TL;DR: People from Asian and black groups are at markedly increased risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19, and contrary to some prior speculation this is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors or deprivation; further research into the drivers of this association is therefore urgently required.

TL;DR: People with HIV in the UK seem to be at increased risk of COVID-19 mortality, and targeted policies should be considered to address this raised risk as the pandemic response evolves.

TL;DR: The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.7 variant of concern (VOC) is increasing in prevalence across Europe as discussed by the authors and the authors found increased risk of death for VOC compared with non-VOC cases in England.