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People who experienced childhood adversity had poorer COVID-19 outcomes, new study shows

  • Written by Jamie Hanson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
imageThe study demonstrated that adverse childhood experiences can have lasting affects.andreswd/E+ via Getty Images

Adults who faced adversity during childhood were significantly more likely to die from or be hospitalized because of COVID-19. That’s the key finding of my team’s recent study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and...

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