“these findings should inform vaccination strategies that often prioritize older adults in the general population resulting in people with idd, who are often in younger age groups, being overlooked,” the authors wrote.
throughout the pandemic, camh senior scientist yona lunsky has been a prominent canadian voice sounding the alarm over the threat presented by covid-19 to people with development disabilities. there was pre-existing knowledge about this population to back it up — their likelihood of premature death and high-risk health conditions they experience more frequently — as well as covid-era evidence emerging from jurisdictions like the u.k. and u.s., in the absence of canada- and ontario-specific data to point to.
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while there remain some people with developmental disabilities who have yet to access covid-19 vaccination, the frantic, fear-filled early days of the vaccine rollout are now in the rearview.