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COVID-19 and Older Persons

2021-07-21

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The basic rights of older persons to adequate health care have been breached in a number of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic including inability to get access to testing and treatment for the virus (e.g., older persons with symptoms of the virus were turned away from hospitals and other care providers and were not transferred from care homes to hospitals when greater levels of care were required following infecti...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3860292

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