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Dr. Allison Reiss shares concerns about Alzheimer s patients and why they should be getting vaccinated as urgently as possible.
Dr. Allison B. Reiss is an Associate Professor of Medicine at N-Y-U Long Island School of Medicine and a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. She says prioritizing Alzheimer’s patients to get the coronavirus vaccinations makes sense.
“Most people with Alzheimer’s are older people, so just from that alone they’re in a high risk category. The also often have many comorbidities that increase their risk, certainly diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure. Some have obesity (and) histories of cancer.”