Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection

The risk for severe illness with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) increases with age, with older adults at highest risk. Adults 65-years-old and older who were fully vaccinated with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had a 94% reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and vaccination was 64% effectiv...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Ashima, Ranjan, Aravind
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022
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Brief Research Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9160614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719431
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24176
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description The risk for severe illness with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) increases with age, with older adults at highest risk. Adults 65-years-old and older who were fully vaccinated with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had a 94% reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and vaccination was 64% effective among those who were partially vaccinated. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Sharma A, Ranjan A. Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(5):632–633.
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spelling pubmed-91606142022-06-17 Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection Sharma, Ashima Ranjan, Aravind Indian J Crit Care Med Brief Research Communication The risk for severe illness with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) increases with age, with older adults at highest risk. Adults 65-years-old and older who were fully vaccinated with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had a 94% reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and vaccination was 64% effective among those who were partially vaccinated. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Sharma A, Ranjan A. Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(5):632–633. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9160614/ /pubmed/35719431 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24176 Text en Copyright © 2022; The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2022 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection
title Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection
title_full Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection
title_fullStr Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection
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title_short Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 Index to Risk Stratify the Geriatric Population with COVID-19 Infection
title_sort veterans health administration covid-19 index to risk stratify the geriatric population with covid-19 infection
topic Brief Research Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9160614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719431
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24176
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