“None of my lupus patients have developed covid, which is quite remarkable,” Dr. Daniel Wallace, a rheumatologist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, said in a teleconference for the Lupus Research Alliance.
Wallace said that of around 1,000 patients with coronavirus that have showed up at his hospital network, “one has had lupus.”
“It may be that the drugs that these patients are taking provides them with type of protection. I find this rather interesting and I can’t quite explain it,” Wallace said.
Go ahead and debunk this guy Happ
Daniel Jeffrey Wallace (born October 27, 1949) is an American rheumatologist, clinical professor, author, and fellow. Wallace has published 450 peer reviewed publications, 9 textbooks, and 28 book chapters on topics such as
lupus,
Sjögren syndrome,
osteoarthritis, and
fibromyalgia. He has the largest cohort of lupus patients in the United States (2000). A full professor of medicine (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA), he is associate director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program at
Cedars-Sinai