Update on the PsoProtect Registry. PsoProtect is a global registry for clinicians to report outcomes of COVID-19 in individuals with psoriasis. Data set currently includes 1,147 cases.

IPC Councilor, Luigi Naldi, MD, shares his expert opinion on a population-based study of COVID-19 - associated hospitalization and mortality in patients with psoriasis.

Update on the PsoProtect Registry. PsoProtect is a global registry for clinicians to report outcomes of COVID-19 in individuals with psoriasis. Data set currently includes 1,118 cases.

The review is up-to-date and discusses the current knowledge and challenges in managing psoriasis during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and nicely points out future directions of psoriasis research by highlighting unresolved questions, new developments, and unmet medical needs.

Because of the growing body of evidence indicating sex differences in the clinical outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, the IMPACT Research Team from Yale University investigated sex differences in viral loads, SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody titers, plasma cytokines, as well as blood cell phenotyping in COVID-19 patients.

Update on the PsoProtect Registry. PsoProtect is a global registry for clinicians to report outcomes of COVID-19 in individuals with psoriasis. Data set currently includes 1002 cases.

Professor Francesca Capon provides a commentary An article recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology1 suggests that diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis increase the risk of COVID-19 by approximately 50%.

n a recent publication in Nature Communications1 a team from Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany described their findings from a cross-sectional population cohort study on the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin G (IgG) in patients with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) on cytokine-blocking treatments. This patient cohort was compared against subjects with IMIDs, not on cytokine inhibitors, health care workers, and healthy controls. The findings from this study showed that patients with IMID on cytokine inhibitors had a lower prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG response compared to the other three cohorts. To assess whether this could be accounted for by differences in social exposure between the groups, the investigators assessed exposure risk variables in the four groups and found those to be similar between the two IMID groups and less than that of health care workers.

Recently, the Task Force (TF) of the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) released a revised version of its COVID-19 statement after an in-depth analysis of publicly available data with two currently approved anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the US, both mRNA-based.

While the news of a potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is to be welcomed, the impact of psoriasis therapy, particularly systemic therapy, on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines needs to be considered.