“Compared with other age groups, older adults have the worst outcomes with a COVID-19 infection,” Laurie Archbald-Pannone writes. “Increased age is, simply put, a major risk factor.”
Laurie Archbald-Pannone
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, AGSF, FACP, is a physician specializing in geriatric medicine and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia. She's also the medical director of the UVA Geriatrics Outpatient Clinic at Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA), where elderly patients in the community are treated in geriatric primary care or geriatric consultation.