Dr. Benjamin Lebwohl Opens Celiacs with Covid-19 Infection Registry to Study its Effects on Patients with Celiac Disease

And if they find out celiacs don't tend to have good outcomes, they won't even bother ventilating us. I hope no one co operates with this. 

I don't think that is the point of this study. Did you know celiacs, even younger ones, should be getting regular pneumococcal vaccinations? 

Knowledge is power, and the more they know about how this affects us, the better they will be able to treat us. The more we know the better, whether the information good or bad news.

The Guidelines’ Primary Goal: Saving the Most Lives
The primary goal of the Guidelines is to save the most lives in an influenza pandemic 
where there are a limited number of available ventilators. To accomplish this goal, patients for 
whom ventilator therapy would most likely be lifesaving are prioritized. The Guidelines define 
survival by examining a patient’s short-term likelihood of surviving the acute medical episode 
and not by focusing on whether the patient may survive a given illness or disease in the long-
term (e.g., years after the pandemic). Patients with the highest probability of mortality without
medical intervention, along with patients with the smallest probability of mortality with medical 
intervention, have the lowest level of access to ventilator therapy. Thus, patients who are most 
likely to survive without the ventilator, together with patients who will most likely survive with
ventilator therapy, increase the overall number of survivors. 
 

If this study proves Celiac patients have slightly worse outcomes they will move down the priority list for very scarce ventilators.

If they don't collect the information they won't be able to deprioratize celiac patients.

I'm an ugly old woman, but there are children who might be denied ventilation because of celiac disease if they can prove worse outcome.

You can imagine all sorts of scenarios that are scary, but that does not mean they will come true.  Also, we currently just don't know how we will fare, better or worse, so it is a good think to know, just like it is better to know that you have celiac disease than not knowing it. Since this area is for article comments, I recommend you go to our topic on this in our forum to have a discussion:

I myself thinking more on the positive side, that they are trying to see if we celiacs are Less of a risk, because we are not eating the major culprit “wheat” that we know damages EVERYONES gut lining. We all know that 80% of our immune system is in the gut.  Think about the higher risk ones that are dying from this covid, its mainly the old ( many years of intestinal damage) obese, type 2 diabetics ( which, no one inherits, that is a lifestyle choice) or they have multiple health issues ( we know celiac has over 300 symptoms so yes, most of us have other issues too)   We as celiacs do not consume glyphosate poisoned wheat, whereas everyone else eats the  standard American diet does! 
I’m under the care of Dr Fasano at Mass Gen Celiac Center in Boston & was diagnosed 10 years ago, as each year goes by, my health has gotten better! More so within the past 3 years. why? Because It wasn’t just wheat. I no longer eat any gluten-free processed foods, no Grains what so ever, no dairy, soy or sugar. I discovered I had many food intolerances, because of the undiagnosed celiac for 25 plus years.   once I addressed them I reversed all my issues ( ADD plus, I had 2 other co existing auto immune, RA & Sjogren’s). Had a repeat endoscopy last year & have healed my villi to the point of “no active celiac) plus bloodwork showing no celiac. We as celiacs tend to eat more healthy so are they looking at that, whereas the avg person eats wheat almost everyday... Is  their unhealthy “Diet” contributing to being more susceptible to getting this virus? 

For the average person who doesn't have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity eating wheat daily should not affect their health. I would not view our diet as healthier for everyone because it doesn't include wheat, it's just healthier for us because we have an autoimmune condition.

I think we definitely agree in this thread that untreated, non gluten-free celiacs would likely have a worse outcome when getting any virus, let alone this coronavirus.

Keep in mind that this novel virus, to which humans have no natural immunity, attacks the lungs. It causes problems with breathing and in the worst cases leads to pneumonia. I too hope that there is some bright side where those with celiac disease are better equipped to handle it, but that remains to be seen. I do think it is important to study this so that we know for sure, because this coronavirus isn't going away, and until there is a vaccine everyone will need to be concerned about it.

I did see a study published in China that said that those with type O blood seem to have less severe cases, and those with type A blood more serious cases. It will be interesting to see how other health factors will affect those who get COVID-19.