Bhathika Perera, Richard Laugharne, William Henley, Abigail Zabel, Kirsten Lamb, David Branford, Ken Courtanay, Regi Alexander, Kiran Purandare, Anusha Wijeratne, Vishwa Radhakrishnan, Eileen McNamara, Youshan Daureeawoo, Indermeet Sawhney, Mark Scheepers, Gordon Taylor, Rohit Shankar
BACKGROUND: Rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected people with intellectual disability disproportionately. Existing data does not provide enough information to understand factors associated with increased deaths in those with intellectual disability. Establishing who is at high risk is important in developing prevention strategies, given risk factors or comorbidities in people with intellectual disability may be different to those in the general population. AIMS: To identify comorbidities, demographic and clinical factors of those individuals with intellectual disability who have died from COVID-19...
October 16, 2020: BJPsych Open