People With Intellectual Disabilities, Developmental Disorders May Be At Greater Risk Of Death From COVID-19, Analysis Suggests

The New York Times (11/10, Rabin) reports, “People with intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders are three times more likely to die if they have Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, compared with others with the diagnosis, according to a large analysis of insurance claims data.” The analysis “included claims filed by 467,773 privately insured patients” and “was evaluated only by an academic reviewer and has not been published in a scientific journal.”

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— “Developmental Disabilities Heighten Risk of Covid Death “Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times, November 10, 2020

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