ID prior to infection of COVID-19 is correlated with higher risk when infected. In a study of the 17203 adults with ID and 188 634 adults without ID in 2020 in Scotland, the ID population showed significantly higher infection rate, severe rate and mortality rate with COVID-19 comparing to the adults without ID. Especially for ID patients who aged 55 to 64 years old.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Using data for diabilities people from over half of the residenetial services in the state of New York, the COVID-19 case rate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities was found to be over four times greater than for the general population in New York. This can be dued to the high percentage of those who live in congregated care settings that caused higher risk and higher report rate because some other data of those disabled people living in community has showed different results.

Disability people during COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 infection and outcomes in a population-based cohort of 17 203 adults with intellectual disabilities compared with the general population 

- More likely to be infected because of the increase in cytokine production which is correlated to mortality rate in COVID-19.
- Insufficient immunity after disease recovery and higher risk of reinfection or lower immune response to vaccination. 
- More likely to have comorbidities like diabetes, heart, respiratory conditions that increased the risk to the infection of COVID-19

People with Downs Syndorme in COVID-19 Pandemic

People with Intellectual disability(ID) and COVID-19 infection

- Lack of accessible information on preventive measures in the pandemic
- The rely on touch and tactile senses for stimulus to perform routineactivities increase infection rates to COVID-19 because the convinence tools are more likely to be unclean and cleaners are more likely to ignore those places
- Worse in low- and Middle-Income Countires

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