COVID-19 mortality rates for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities
1 Center for Disability Information Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, United States of American.
2 Research Institute at Woods Services Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
3 New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation Albany, New York, United States of America.
4 Lee Specialty Clinic Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.
5 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
6 ANCOR Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America.
Research Article
International Journal of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Archive, 2021, 02(01), 179–183.
Article DOI: 10.53771/ijbpsa.2021.2.1.0075
Publication history:
Received on 18 August 2021; revised on 23 September 2021; accepted on 25 September 2021
Abstract:
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) appear to have an increased probability of death from COVID-19 once infected. We report infection and mortality rates for people with IDD compared to the general population of eight states at two time points during the COVID-19 pandemic. Note that these eight states contain approximately 1/3 of the population of the United States. These data suggest individuals with IDD are less likely to be infected with the COVID-19 virus (5.62%) than the general public (7.57%). However, while mortality rates for both groups have declined over time, people with IDD are over twice as likely (2.29) to die from the infection as members of the general public.
Keywords:
Intellectual Disability; COVID; Mortality: Infection
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