That pesky little Covid thing
07-23-2020, 04:44 PM
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Let's start with obesity - runs at ~ 40% of the population, smoking is ~ 13%, Diabetes is at ~14% diagnosed, 7% undiagnosed.
" To compare the effects of age and comorbidity on a U.S. population of COVID-19 patients, an analysis was performed on 7162 (5.8%) of a total 122,653, reported as of March 28, 2020, for whom information on underlying health conditions or risk factors was known. Among these patients, 37.6% were judged to have one or more underlying conditions or risk factors.
These comorbidities were more common in those requiring hospitalization (71%) and intensive care (78%) than in those not requiring hospitalization (27%). The most commonly reported conditions were diabetes mellitus, chronic lung disease, and cardiac disease. Patients ≥65 years of age with or without underlying conditions were 2 to 3 times more likely to require hospitalization and admission to intensive care than were those 19 to 64 years of age. Data on patients who died were too sparse to establish case-fatality rates and their relationship to comorbidities, but the vast majority of deaths (94%) occurred in patients with underlying conditions."
from https://www.jwatch.org/na51296/2020/...19-severity-us
All that said, folks really don't understand this very well yet, so there is a lot that is 'best-guess'. Folks seem to have decided that is is a vascular disease not a respiratory one.
From what I have read, the long-term effects can be pretty bad!
Ray - who is still trying to find that balance
" To compare the effects of age and comorbidity on a U.S. population of COVID-19 patients, an analysis was performed on 7162 (5.8%) of a total 122,653, reported as of March 28, 2020, for whom information on underlying health conditions or risk factors was known. Among these patients, 37.6% were judged to have one or more underlying conditions or risk factors.
These comorbidities were more common in those requiring hospitalization (71%) and intensive care (78%) than in those not requiring hospitalization (27%). The most commonly reported conditions were diabetes mellitus, chronic lung disease, and cardiac disease. Patients ≥65 years of age with or without underlying conditions were 2 to 3 times more likely to require hospitalization and admission to intensive care than were those 19 to 64 years of age. Data on patients who died were too sparse to establish case-fatality rates and their relationship to comorbidities, but the vast majority of deaths (94%) occurred in patients with underlying conditions."
from https://www.jwatch.org/na51296/2020/...19-severity-us
All that said, folks really don't understand this very well yet, so there is a lot that is 'best-guess'. Folks seem to have decided that is is a vascular disease not a respiratory one.
From what I have read, the long-term effects can be pretty bad!
Ray - who is still trying to find that balance
