Posts by Stewart Lawrence
COVID-19 Grief: A Special Kind of Pain
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on American society — not just the nearly million dead, most of them elderly, that have perished thus far, but the millions more, mostly close family members, that have watched their loved ones perish, virtually overnight in many cases. It’s a modern tragedy, but one made even…
Read MoreDown Syndrome and COVID-19: An Especially Vulnerable Group
Research shows that people with Down syndrome are three to ten times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general population. They are also far more likely to develop complications from the disease. But until recently, the Centers for Disease Control, citing mixed scientific evidence, was reluctant to designate Down syndrome as one of…
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