Loubert Linda
Economics Department, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Apr 1;9(4):388. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9040388.
Cases of COVID-19, the coronavirus that has spread throughout the world, affect and kill the poor, racial minorities, and the elderly disproportionately. The toll to the elders of our society is extreme and does not seem to relent over time. This work examines the statistics of the cases and deaths at the early onset of the disease in nursing homes. It reveals the age disparities seen in the COVID-19 pandemic by using data from nursing homes across the states, and particularly in Maryland, as a source to illustrate the effect on the elderly living in group-like settings. It presents an overview of the disease in the early months as it ravaged across the states, indicating that the older generation was a lot more at risk than the general population. It is necessary to illustrate these disparities even as the numbers of infections and deaths are not static.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）已在全球蔓延，其病例对贫困人口、少数族裔和老年人的影响尤为严重，致死率也更高。这场疫情给我们社会中的老年人带来了极其沉重的打击，而且这种情况似乎并未随着时间的推移而有所缓解。这项研究调查了养老院中该疾病早期发病时的病例及死亡统计数据。通过使用来自全美各州养老院的数据，特别是马里兰州的养老院数据，揭示了COVID-19大流行期间存在的年龄差异，以此说明该疾病对居住在集体环境中的老年人的影响。本文概述了该疾病在最初几个月席卷各州时的情况，表明老年人群体比普通人群面临的风险要高得多。即便感染和死亡人数并非一成不变，但仍有必要阐明这些差异。
