Open AccessCOVID-19 in Geriatric Age Group - A Review
Author(s) -
Alisha Rewari
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of communicable diseases/journal of communicable diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2581-351X
pISSN - 0019-5138
DOI - 10.24321/0019.5138.202045
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , cluster (spacecraft) , medicine , disease , gerontology , comorbidity , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , computer science , programming language
Coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis that has affected the entire mankind. The elderlies are a specific cluster of high-risk patients for developing COVID-19 infection with rapid clinical deterioration. Frailty and comorbid conditions in the geriatric age group may be associated with mortality, considering the diversity of results in the existing literature. The present document has been drafted to review the available literature and evidences on this infection in geriatric age group which is particularly vulnerable to this disease and its fatal manifestations.