Article: Smokers more at risk for coronavirus

[stols001]

Interesting but not at all unexpected. I would like a study that compares the effects of COVID against people losing healthcare due to layoffs and unemployment, who required routine medical care tor remain healthy and/or lost insurance in the middle of chemotherapy. I haven't found one yet, and I think you might be hard pressed to find a neutral epidemiologist who might consider the latter number to be as high or higher. I may do digging later but if anyone has a remotely useful study?

This one makes and has made less sense to me than deeming even. I also don't think there are too many predictable trends with this virus and oversimplification is bad. Take a healthy young adult who has smoked lightly for 6 months.... They would be in far better shape than I was during my 18 month battle with pneumonia for example. You just can't say stuff like "smokers this" it's too broad a category,.

Anna

 

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"That also means that a lot more people have had this, probably asymptomatically or with mild illness, than we thought before," Kraft said Wednesday.

A half dozen or so serology surveys have been done this month that all point at this conclusion. Somewhere between 10 and 50 times the number of people with confirmed cases have been found to have antibodies in all of them. There has also been standard PCR testing at a couple of homeless shelters, one on east coast and one on the west, that found a very high number of positive results, and almost all of them were asymptomatic. Lastly, there have been at least two studies of virus levels in municipal sewer systems. It's known to be shed in feces, and the levels found also indicate far more people must have it than the number of confirmed cases could possibly account for.

 

[stols001]

Yep, over before it began. More and more evidence points to this, I just can't think about it too much or I would get VERY angry more than I am. Sigh.

Anna