Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tom Shakespeare ;
Florence Ndagire;
Queen E Seketi;
(2021)
Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lancet, 397 (10282).
pp. 1331-1333.
ISSN 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00625-5
People with disabilities have been differentially affected by COVID-19 because of three factors: the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease itself, reduced access to routine health care and rehabilitation, and the adverse social impacts of efforts to mitigate the pandemic.
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Elements ID | 158254 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-2787