Outcomes from COVID-19 across the range of frailty: excess mortality in fitter older people.

Amy Miles Thomas E Webb Benjamin C Mcloughlin Imran MannanArshad RatherPaul KnoppDaniel H J Davis

Published in: European geriatric medicine (2020)

Our findings suggest that (1) frailty is not a good discriminator of prognosis in COVID-19 and (2) pathways to mortality may differ in fitter compared with frailer older patients.

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