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Lack of COVID-19 Data on People with Intellectual Disabilities 'Comes With a Body Count'
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By Katheryn Houghton Peter Prater’s family wasn’t thinking about covid-19 when the call came that he had been taken to the hospital with a fever.
It was April, and the Tallahassee Developmental Center, where Prater lives, hadn’t yet had any covid diagnoses. Prater, 55, who has Down syndrome and diabetes, became the Florida center’s first known case, his family said.
Within two weeks, more than half of the roughly 60 residents and a third of the staff had tested positive for the virus, according to local news reports. “We thought we were going to lose him,” said Jim DeBeaugrine, Prater’s brother-in-law, who also works as an advocate for people with disabilities. “We weren’t aware of a correlation to Down syndrome and bad outcomes with covid
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