新型コロナウイルスと高齢者:家族のための6つの助言
新型コロナウイルスの震源地となった中国のデータは、高齢者や慢性疾患を持つ人は新型コロナウイルス感染症が重症化するリスクが高いことを示しています。地域社会における感染拡大の懸念が世界中に広がっていますが、そうした潜在リスクが明らかになったことで、多くの高齢者と家族の間で不安が広がり、解決策が求められています。
Erwin J. Tan MD is a board certified internist and geriatrician and the AARP Director of Thought Leadership- Health. Erwin previously served as the director of Senior Corps at the Corporation for National and Community Service. From 2004 to 2010, he served as an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was an attending physician in the Division of Geriatric Medicine. He was also a co-investigator in the Baltimore Experience Corps Study. From 2003-2004, Erwin was a White House Fellow serving as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Before coming to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, Erwin was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where he served as Geriatric Medicine Fellow and a Primary Care Medicine Resident. Erwin was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves. He received a bachelor’s from Brown University and graduated from New York University School of Medicine as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Erwin was born in Indonesia and is a naturalized citizen of the United States.
新型コロナウイルスの震源地となった中国のデータは、高齢者や慢性疾患を持つ人は新型コロナウイルス感染症が重症化するリスクが高いことを示しています。地域社会における感染拡大の懸念が世界中に広がっていますが、そうした潜在リスクが明らかになったことで、多くの高齢者と家族の間で不安が広がり、解決策が求められています。
Data from China, where Covid-19 first spread suggests older people and people with chronic medical conditions may be at higher risk of severe illness from it. The potential danger, along ...