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The Elderly and the COVID 19 Crisis: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold, in Isolation and Total Indifference

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Since December 2019, the COVID 19 pandemic has been an unprecedented health crisis that has shaken the entire planet, dragging the social, economic, and political world into turmoil. The elderly… Click to show full abstract

Since December 2019, the COVID 19 pandemic has been an unprecedented health crisis that has shaken the entire planet, dragging the social, economic, and political world into turmoil. The elderly population is one of the prime targets of COVID 19, finding itself on the front line and, as a result, it has already paid a heavy price. In many countries, the elderly account for almost half of the deaths that have occurred in the past 3 months (1, 2).

Keywords: elderly covid; chronicle deaths; crisis chronicle; covid crisis; deaths foretold; crisis

Journal Title: Frontiers in Public Health
Year Published: 2020

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