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Adults with Down syndrome 3 times more likely to die of COVID, study finds – CIDRAP
The authors say the data support the CDC’s prioritization of this group for vaccination.
Adults older than 40 with Down syndrome are about three times more likely to die of COVID-19 than the rest of the population, pointing to the need to prioritize coronavirus vaccination to this group, a study published yesterday in the Lancet’sEClinicalMedicine has found.
A team led by Emory University researchers conducted the international online survey of the clinicians or caregivers of 1,046 patients with Down syndrome diagnosed as having COVID-19 from April to November 2020.
The results were…
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