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Clinical features and outcomes of COVID-19 in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sunny SinghalPramod KumarSumitabh SinghSrishti SahaAparajit Ballav Dey
Published in: BMC geriatrics (2021)
Approximately half of older patients with COVID-19 have severe infection, one in five are critically ill and one in ten die. More high-quality evidence is needed to study outcomes in this vulnerable patient population and factors affecting these outcomes.
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