evidence: Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the associations between alcohol consumption and COVID-19 risk and associated mortality, and to determine the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs after adjusting for age, sex, education, ethnicity, employment, BMI, overall health rating, Townsend, usually walking pace, cerebrovascular diseases, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory disease, cancer, alcohol drinker status, frequency of alcohol intake, amount of weekly intake level of alcohol consumption, red wine, champagne plus white wine, beer and cider, spirits, and fortified wine. Two-tailed p < 0.05 was considered significant. [...] We further analyzed the association of alcohol consumption with COVID-19 risk among those subjects who have reported the COVID-19 testing results (Figure 2). We found that the results were highly similar to the findings as shown in Figure 1 where the subjects who did not report the COVID-19 testing results were deemed to have a negative COVID-19 testing result. Specially, additional findings of the sensitivity analysis showed that compared with non-drinkers, alcohol consumers had higher risks of COVID-19, regardless of within or above the guidelines (within guidelines, 1.10 [1.02, 1.20]; above guidelines, 1.17 [1.05, 1.30]; and double above the guidelines or more, 1.17 [1.03, 1.33]). [...] The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.