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.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Learning Disability Practice Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 6 - 10
Main Author: Pearce, Lynne
Format: pictorial Journal Article
Published: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The) 2/4/2021
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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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.