The study also found that EMS-attended deaths have doubled, indicating that when EMS calls were made, they often involved a far more serious emergency.
UB economist Joanne Song McLaughlin says older women faces with the possibility of both age and gender discrimination are "falling through the cracks."
These bubble-like structures called vesicles — crafted without traditional lipid building blocks — could potentially be engineered to deliver drugs, scientists say.
The UB study focuses on non-critical patients, who make up the majority of COVID-19 cases, and potentially pose the highest risk to spread the disease.
In research led by UB professor Teresa Quattrin, golimumab preserved beta-cell function in children and young adults with newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes.