The American Academy of Dermatology has created a global registry to log skin conditions seen in patients with COVID-19, as well as to monitor responses to the virus in patients with existing dermatological conditions.

Inspired by a similar registry created by the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, Dr Esther Freeman, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues in the Academy’s COVID-19 Task Force, developed the idea for the online dermatology registry on 30 March and opened it on 8 April.