CDC Adds Down Syndrome To COVID-19 ‘Increased Risk’ List

8th January, 2021

8 January 2021, COVID, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is acknowledging for the first time that COVID-19 poses an especially high risk for people with Down syndrome.

The federal agency updated its list of conditions that carry an “increased risk of severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19” in late December to include Down syndrome.

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