About COVID-19 | Symptoms | Long COVID | High-Risk People | Prevention | Testing | Treatment
Are you at high risk for becoming seriously ill from COVID-19?1,2
Are there treatment options?3
If you are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19, you should know that treatment options are available. The treatments may help some people manage their COVID-19 symptoms and potentially help reduce the risk of becoming seriously ill.3
The risk of serious COVID-19 illness is linked to having one or more underlying medical condition. If you have more than one risk factor, your risk goes up with each one. As the age goes up, the risk of getting ill from COVID-19 increases.4
Speak to your doctor if you have tested positive for COVID-19 and you have one or more risk factors listed below.
Here is a list of some of the factors that may put you at high risk:1,2
All individuals with Down's syndrome or other chromosomal disorders known to affect immune competence.
(diseases in which autoimmune or autoinflammation-based pathways are implicated in disease, for example, inflammatory arthritis, connective tissue diseases, inflammatory skin diseases, inflammatory gastrointestinal disease)
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