Study: Mortality in people with intellectual disabilities extended beyond deaths from COVID itself

New research presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (Copenhagen, April 15–18) and published in The Lancet Public Health shows that the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in people living with intellectual disabilities extended beyond deaths from the virus itself, and was linked with increased mortality in several other conditions. The study is by Dr. Maarten Cuypers, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues.