A new Exercise is Medicine blog calls upon public health leaders to make physical activity education and promotion an urgent priority for older adults given the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new Exercise is Medicine blog calls upon public health leaders to make physical activity education and promotion an urgent priority given the COVID-19 pandemic. It is well known that older adults, especially those with pre-existing conditions, are at the highest risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19. This same group also has the weakest immune response to vaccines, in general, due to immunosenescence. In the blog, Dr. Sallis discusses the timely and critical opportunity we have to use physical activity to improve the immune responses of older adults to any vaccine that will eventually be widely delivered. A few studies show promising findings about physical activity:
Date: 2020-08-28
Posted by: Liza Stathokostas