“…Similar observations were reported by Kayani et al [ 18 ], who had a similar incidence of mortality in hip fracture among the COVID-19 infected and non-infected patients. Several cohort studies reported no significant difference in delay in surgery, treatment methods, complications, and 30-d mortality in the hip fracture between the pandemic and the pre-pandemic period[ 24 , 27 ]. Because of the small cohort of hip fracture patients during the pandemic time, such conclusion should be interpreted judiciously as it seems there is no ill-effect of COVID-19 infection per se on the patient and probably there is no severe consequence of slight treatment delay.…”