China's health authorities say 90 percent of the country's senior citizens over 60 years old have had at least one COVID vaccine, and over 180 million senior citizens have got three doses. However, elderly people remain the biggest high-risk group. Wu
At a vaccination site in Beijing's Haidian District, an increasing number of elderly people have been spotted recently. An 87-year-old woman who had already received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot said she accompanied her 91-year-old husband to get the third shot. In China, over 90 perc...
Over 2.46 million elderly have received booster shots, said the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Over 60.76 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in the city, with over 23 million people now vaccinated. Of all, over 15.4 million have received booster shots, the...
To best of our knowledge, the prevalence and risk of death of severe COVID-19 is higher in elderly patients with chronic comorbidities, such as arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiac and cerebrovascular disorders, and COPD (Wang et al.2020b). Of note, diagnosis of major cardiac comp...
1) [25], which can be a predisposing factor to aberrant inflammation, increasing the severity and risk of death in elderly [26]. Anxiety and MDD: What Factors Are Predisposing During COVID-19? It is estimated that about 192 million people over the age of 60 have some mental or ...
This is particularly true for people with multiple chronic conditions. “Assume you have an elderly person who has hypertension and diabetes, and name your list of diseases that are potentially lethal. It might be very challenging to pick the one underlying cause of death,” said Dr. Joyce deJ...
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COVID-19 pandemicThe article offers information on the psychological intervention with elderly people during the Covid-19 pandemic, along with mentions the experience of a nursing home amid the pandemic in Italy. It discusses that nursing homes people with physical or mental disabilities, neurological...
The relaxation of epidemic control and prevention is not suitable for the world's most populous country, home to 267 million elderly people aged 60 and above and 260 million people with underlying health conditions, currently vaccination rates for elderly and children are not high enough. Moreover...
in older people, as age is a known strong risk factor for severe COVID-19. However, by contrast with the immunosenescence observed after influenza infection in the elderly, multivariable analysis indicated that age and severity of illness were independently associated with increased antibody titers. ...