People who smoke are prioritized to get the COVID-19 vaccine

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"A study, published Jan. 25 in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that people who smoke or who have smoked in the past are more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19 than people who haven’t smoked."
However, they're less likely to get COVID-19 in the 1st place, according the earlier observations from China & the West.
Good example of the sort of disinformation we're fed all the time: Less likely to get the illness (COVID-19) if infected w/ the virus (SARS-CoV2) but more likely to be hospitalized or to die if getting the illness. Just report the 2nd part of that, though.
 
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