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Dementia patients are at greater risk for COVID-19, particularly African Americans and people with vascular dementia – The Conversation US
Because dementia patients are more likely to acquire COVID-19, and because so many live in close-quarter facilities – like nursing homes – it’s critical to vaccinate…
New research is shedding light on how dementia can increase peoples risk for developing COVID-19, particularly among two groups: African Americans and people with vascular dementia.
The headline findings of a recent study revealed that dementia patients overall face twice the risk for developing COVID-19 as adults without dementia. But two other results from that study deserve more attention than they have received so far.
One is that African Americans with dementia had three times the risk of developing…
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