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Study identifies risk factors for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality among U.S. nursing home residents Study of almost 500,000 elderly in over 15,000 nursing homes finds that risk factors for infection tend to be affected by nursing homes and surrounding communities, while risk factors for hospitalization and death depended on patient-specific factors Credit: Getty Images April 8, 2021 Risks of coronavirus infection for long-stay nursing home residents were mainly dependent on factors in their nursing homes and surrounding communities, according to a large study led by a r...

Risks of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection for long-stay nursing home residents were mainly dependent on factors in their nursing homes and surrounding communities, according to a large study led by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Patients taking immunosuppressive drugs did not have worse COVID-19 outcomes People taking immunosuppressive drugs to prevent organ transplant rejection or to treat inflammatory or autoimmune diseases do not fare worse than others on average when they are hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Estimates suggest that there are approximately 10 million immunocompromised people in the U.S. alone. Suppression of the immune system has been considered a potentially major risk factor for severe and fatal COVID-19 beca...