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Medicine’s Rong Xu discusses her study that underlies the increased risk of contracting COVID-19 for those with dementia

People with dementia are twice as likely to get COVID, huge study finds

The New York Times: Rong Xu, professor of biomedical informatics at the School of Medicine, discussed her study of nearly 62 million electronic medical records in the U.S. that found that those with dementia are much more likely to get COVID-19—and Black people with dementia are at an even greater risk.