Landes featured in Forbes on COVID19 deaths related to intellectual and developmental disabilities

Lerner Research Affiliate Scott Landes featured in Forbes article on COVID19 related mortality among those with intellectual and developmental disabilities

May 29, 2020

Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Landes and colleagues report on their findings after analyzing thousands of people who had COVID-19. They found that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19 than those without IDD.

Read the Forbes article: People With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities More Likely To Die From Covid-19 and Landes' recent data slice: COVID-19 Mortality Rates are Higher among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.