WHO statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”: Should the hypothesis be corroborated or rejected?

Coronavirus COVID 19 has become a threat to mankind affecting millions of people worldwide. United States, Italy and Spain has the highest number of Coronavirus cases as of April 30, 2020. According to World Health Organization (WHO) statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”. Howe...

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Autores principales: Ningthoujam, Ramananda, Khomdram, Deepa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Letter to Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109896
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description Coronavirus COVID 19 has become a threat to mankind affecting millions of people worldwide. United States, Italy and Spain has the highest number of Coronavirus cases as of April 30, 2020. According to World Health Organization (WHO) statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”. However, in contrast to the statement, some new studies and findings have come to light. And this has created confusion in our mind as to whether the hypothesis should be corroborated or rejected.
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spelling pubmed-72971722020-06-17 WHO statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”: Should the hypothesis be corroborated or rejected? Ningthoujam, Ramananda Khomdram, Deepa Med Hypotheses Letter to Editors Coronavirus COVID 19 has become a threat to mankind affecting millions of people worldwide. United States, Italy and Spain has the highest number of Coronavirus cases as of April 30, 2020. According to World Health Organization (WHO) statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”. However, in contrast to the statement, some new studies and findings have come to light. And this has created confusion in our mind as to whether the hypothesis should be corroborated or rejected. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7297172/ /pubmed/32585464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109896 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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WHO statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”: Should the hypothesis be corroborated or rejected?
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title_full_unstemmed WHO statement – “Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”: Should the hypothesis be corroborated or rejected?
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