Dr Arielle Elkrief speaks to ecancer in online video interview about an observational cohort study from Quebec and British Columbia looking at the mortality among hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection in patients with cancer.

She reports that 47% of cancer patients who contracted COVID-19 in the hospital died compared with 23% of cancer patients who had contracted COVID-19 in the community.

Dr Elkrief explains that a multi-varied analysis was carried out in order to adjust for other factors and, from this, catching COVID-19 in the hospital was shown as being independently associated with worse outcomes.