The authors introduce the special supplement on protecting populations at high risk for severe COVID-19 from adverse health outcomes. They talk about the deaths caused by COVID-19, the relative risk of dying from COVID-19, and the Morehouse School of Medicine's annual Daniel ...
High risk groups for severe COVID-19 in a whole of population cohort in Australia Bette Liu1,2*, Paula Spokes2, Wenqiang He1 and John Kaldor3 Abstract Background: Increasing age is the strongest known risk factor for severe COVID-19 disease but information on other factors is more limited...
"Public policymakers face important decisions about how to balance the economic benefits of keeping workers employed and the public health benefits of protecting those with increased risk of severe COVID-19," said lead researcher Thomas Selden, from the U.S. Agency for Health...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday expanded itslist of risk factorsthat make people more likely to develop severe illness or die from COVID-19. The update comes as the number of confirmedcoronavirusinfectionsrises to record levelsin the United States, driven by alarming spi...
France Widens COVID Vaccine Rollout to 16-17 Year Olds at High Risk of Major Illness More Reuters FILE PHOTO: People wait to be given a COVID-19 vaccine in Nice, France, April 29, 2021. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard PARIS (Reuters) - France has decided to wide...
COVID-19 cases occurred among relatively young age groups, with most transmission occurring among individuals between 20 and 60 years of age, and in high-income communities with better access to healthcare and lower prevalence of risk factors for severe COVID-19 [13, 14, 16, 21, 52, 53]...
and severe COVID risk is thought to be due to the binding of the SARS-CoV-2's spike protein to an enzyme that is the target of many medications that lower high blood pressure. They said these findings might rule out this mechanism being important for the development of long COVID. ...
This retrospective study examined 29 cases of attempted suicide during the 3-month COVID-19 lockdown in KSA. The suicide risk factors were evaluated using specific instrument the modified (SAD PERSONS) scale. It is an acronym for sex, age, depression, previous attempt, excess alcohol, rational...
A Greater Victoria woman deemed medically vulnerable by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control says Island Health’s process for booking COVID-19 tests has left her feeling helpless. Langford resident Shelley Robinson, 56, has adult cystic fibrosis, a disorder known to cause severe damage ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has highly praised the pandemic prevention and control at the Games, which has seen no more than 10 new COVID-19 cases reported inside the closed loop since Feb. 6, including a zero on Feb. 13. ...