COVID-19 Mortality Rates for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
COVID-19 Mortality Rates for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Mark D. Davis, Scott Spreat, Ryan Cox, Matthew Holder, Kathryn M. Burke, and Donna M. Martin
International Journal of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Archive, 2021, 02(01), 179–183
Abstract
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) appear to have an increased probability of death from COVID-19 once infected. We report infection and mortality rates for people with IDD compared to the general population of eight states at two time points during the COVID-19 pandemic. Note that these eight states contain
approximately 1/3 of the population of the United States. These data suggest individuals with IDD are less likely to be
infected with the COVID-19 virus (5.62%) than the general public (7.57%). However, while mortality rates for both
groups have declined over time, people with IDD are over twice as likely (2.29) to die from the infection as members of
the general public