Kidney dialysis patients 40 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVIDCOVID-19 hospitalization and all-cause death rates for patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing dialysis, as well as kidney transplant recipients, climbed steeply early in the pandemic, and both exhibited racial disparities, according to a study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).Researchers at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute in Minneapolis retrospectively analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Renal Management Information System before and after the emergence of COVID-19.The investigators found that when the hospitalization rate for COVID-19 patients undergoing dialysis peaked from