Continued demographic shifts in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 from migrant workers to a vulnerable and more elderly local population at risk of severe disease
Objectives: In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, the vast majority of infected persons were migrant workers living in dormitories who had few medical comorbidities. In 2021, with the Delta and Omicron waves, this shifted to the more vulnerable, elderly population within the loc...
Main Authors: | Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Srishti Chhabra, Wilson Goh, Meng Ying Sim, Nicholas WS Chew, Ching-Hui Sia, Gail Brenda Cross, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-02-01
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Series: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971222006439 |
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