{"title":"Elderly Involvement in the Era of COVID-19 Infection","authors":"Ibrahim Maha Hossam Eldin, Abdellatif Abeer Awad","doi":"10.23937/2643-4466/1710028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23937/2643-4466/1710028","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the entire world is facing the outbreak pandemic of COVID-19 infection which is a lethal infection to some extent. The most commonly affected group of population is the elderly due to impaired immunity and multiple co-morbidities they suffer from. From this point of view; we will discuss some important issues about the elderly involvement during COVID-19 pandemic hoping to raise the awareness toward that frail sector of population. Indeed many researches for COVID infection whether regarding outcomes, predictive diagnostics, and management strategies including optimal approach in older people is largely needed.","PeriodicalId":346614,"journal":{"name":"International Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116353622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}