PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ho So
AU  - Joyce Wing Yan  Mak
AU  - Lai-Shan Tam
TI  - No Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The Effect of Masking?
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.200605
DP  - 2020 Jun 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - jrheum.200605
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2020/06/09/jrheum.200605.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2020/06/09/jrheum.200605.full
AB  - We read with interest the report by Favalli, et al on the incidence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italian patients with connective tissue diseases1. None of the 61 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) surveyed was confirmed to have COVID-19. This is in contrast to the initial analysis of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance registry, which shows an overrepresentation of SLE in patients with rheumatic diseases who have been diagnosed with COVID-192.