Do you avoid performing urine microscopy in patients with AKI who have COVID-19 given concern for potential aerosolization?

No. The risk is very low to non-existent. At the beginning of the epidemic we were doing that but the evidence now is not supporting that practice.

Sensitive RNA detection assays have identified SARS-Co-V2 (COVID-19) (Nomoto et al., PMID 32502614) intermittently in urine. However, attempts to culture viable SARS-Co-V2 from urine samples that tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 genome have been negative, suggesting viral transmission via urine is...