Higher rate of COVID-19 death before vaccination linked to certain common inflammatory immune conditions

Published on June 8, 2022

People with certain inflammatory immune conditions affecting the joints, bowel and skin, such as  rheumatoid arthritis, may have been more at risk of dying or needing hospital care if they got COVID-19 before vaccination compared with the general population, according to a new study published in The Lancet Rheumatology with the involvement of researchers from the University of Oxford.
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