Drawing on interviews we conducted with 15 medical assistance in dying (MAiD) providers from across Canada, we examine how physicians and nurse practitioners reconcile respect for the new, changing rules brought upon by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with their existing leg...
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths (all causes) and has disproportionately affected the elderly with certain characteristics. Objectives To study how COVID-19 affected cancer deaths regarding age, sex, socio-economic status, comorbidities, and access to palliative care. An add...
Living and Dying Nations and the Age of COVID-19COVID-19 has provided a worldwide test of a vital measure of national capability: how effectively can a state protect the health and lives of its people?doi:info:doi/10.1080/00396338.2020.1819659Rhode, Benjamin...
Delirium as the first clin- ical presentation of COVID-19 was shown by Poloni et al. to be associated with old age and with multiple co- morbidities, but not with sex, in a dementia facility [8]. In a Spanish study examining patients with COVID-19 admitted to an emergency department,...
The findings show that the common belief that men with COVID fare worse than women varies in magnitude across social groups defined by race/ethnicity. They also highlight that societal factors related to gender in combination with racism and economic status are important, the researchers said. ...
When Demi Washington, a basketball player at Vanderbilt University came down with COVID-19 in late 2020, her symptoms were mild, just a runny nose.
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Parents of seven children die after being hospitalized with Covid Seven children are grieving the loss of their parents after both got infected by COVID-19. Both the mother and father were 44 years old. FOX 2-Seven children are grieving the loss of their parents after ...
People with severe mental disorders have a significantly increased risk of dying from COVID-19. This has been shown in a new study from Umeå University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Among the elderly, the proportion of deaths due to COVID-19 wa
Results show that the common belief that men with COVID-19 fare more poorly than women varies in magnitude acrosssocial groupsdefined by race/ethnicity. Key findings of the study include: Black women have COVID-19 mortality rates that are almost 4 times higher than that of white men and 3...