COVID-19 vaccine: why people with learning disabilities should be a priority group: Service users are significantly more likely to die from coronavirus than the general population.
People with learning disabilities were up to six times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general population during the first wave of the pandemic, according to a Public Health England study.
| Published in: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 6 - 10 |
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| Format: | pictorial Journal Article |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
2/4/2021
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | People with learning disabilities were up to six times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general population during the first wave of the pandemic, according to a Public Health England study. |
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