HealthDay Reports: People With Intellectual Disabilities Are Being Hit Hard by COVID-19
People with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD) were found to be more likely to die from a COVID-19 infection than the general public.
People With Intellectual Disabilities Are Being Hit Hard by COVID-19
MONDAY, June 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- New research is shining a light on a group particularly vulnerable to the new coronavirus: People with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), cared for either by family at home or in group homes.
People with these types of disabilities include those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other conditions, and the data shows they're significantly more likely to die after contracting COVID-19 than the general public.
According to the database used in the study, the virus claimed the lives of just under 3% of COVID-19 patients between the ages of 18 and 74 who did not have an IDD. But among COVID-19 patients who do have an IDD, that figure rose by half, to 4.5%.
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