Coronavirus disease 2019 hangover: a rising tide of alcohol use disorder and alcohol‐associated liver disease

BL Da, GY Im, TD Schiano - Hepatology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has had a tremendous global impact
since it began in November of 2019. However, there are concerns that the COVID‐19
pandemic will not affect all equally and that some populations will be particularly vulnerable.
Relevant to liver disease, patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and alcohol‐associated
liver disease (ALD) may be among the populations that are the most severely impacted. The
reasons for this include being at a higher risk of severe COVID‐19 infection due to a …