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cord-284984-sdx3cceq	Norman, Richard E.	Typically Atypical: COVID‐19 Presenting as a Fall in an Older Adult	2020-05-14		.txt	text/plain	707	66	57	An 83-year-old woman presented to an emergency department following an unwitnessed fall at home, with her only complaint being a vague sense of dizziness that developed that day. Much of the attention regarding care of older adults with COVID-19 has focused on its significant mortality rate (reaching 10%-27% for those >85 years 6 ) or the possible need for rationing of limited resources, such as ventilators. 8 There is already evidence that screening based on typical symptoms alone, which failed in this case, is insufficient to identify COVID-19 in older adults. 9, 10 This has significant implications for both clinical care and infection prevention and control, particularly in congregate living settings such as nursing homes, where frail older adults have experienced disproportionately high COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China Coronavirus disease 2019 in geriatrics and long-term care: the ABCDs of COVID-19	./cache/cord-284984-sdx3cceq.txt	./txt/cord-284984-sdx3cceq.txt