Investigación Gerontológica y Geriatría

Abstracto

Editorial Note for Proposing the Special Issue ''Severity of COVID Infection and Elder Care''

Pandey AK

Form last 6 to 8 months the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
is rapidly spreading throughout the world and became pandemic.
As per the report of World Health Organization (WHO) it
is a severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus. It
has been found that this disease may cause severe impact on
immune deficient patients or less immune persons. Due to some
physiological, pathophysiological changes, the comorbidities will
increase with age of a person’s and makes them susceptible towards
most of the infectious diseases. As per the knowledge and WHO
report the persons whose age is >60 has high risk of causing corona
infection.