Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19996-z, published online 16 December 2020.

The original version of this Article cited “Mehra, M. R., Desai, S. S., Kuy, S., Henry, T. D. & Patel, A. N. Cardiovascular disease, drug therapy, and mortality in Covid-19. N. Engl. J. Med. 382, e102 (2020)” as Ref. 20. The cited paper was retracted; accordingly, Ref. 20 has been replaced with "Grasselli G et al. Risk factors associated with mortality among patients with COVID-19 in intensive care units in Lombardy, Italy. JAMA Intern. Med. 180, 1345–1355 (2020)”. This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the article.