I had my three-month appointment yesterday, and asked the rheumatologist if there was any data this early indicating whether RA/PsA patients were more or less likely to get the virus.  

It's something I've been curious about, as I suspect we all have.  We're taking immunosuppressants, how might that factor in?  Does the overactive immune system we're trying to actively suppress actually help us?  As a group, we are (perhaps) more tuned in to our general health than others might be; is that paying off for us?

Not surprisingly, she said it's far too early to have any conclusive results, but - 

She is part of a consortium of rheumatologists who have been having a Zoom meeting once a week to just casually compare experiences.  Not a large group, she said, it's about thirty total, all former medical school classmates.

So bear that in mind - from a scientific standpoint, this is a mere blip, this is too small a sample, too anecdotal, etc.  But it's still encouraging to hear that this group of rheumatologists does not have one single Covid-positive patient to their knowledge in their practices.

All the usual caveats apply:  they're well aware they might simply not know of someone who's positive, and they're well aware that insufficient testing factors into this, and a patient who reported being int he lcear at last week's appointment cold well have become ill in the interim, and so on.  And there's simply no way to draw any other conclusions, but she said that our collective attention paid to our overall health is without a doubt in our favor.

But that's a lot more encouraging than hearing an anecdotal report that there are higher numbers of infection in our subset, you know?  So, let's take it for what it is:  a tiny, hearsay sort of sample, but still, one that sounds encouraging.