Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths

Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by oefrha on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:13AM (#22433929)

An early preprint from the team of China’s leading expert Zhong Nanshan tagged smokers and non-smokers among the 1099 cases they analyzed. 85.4% supposedly never smoked, with 14.5% of those cases severe. So it’s not like non-smokers are very much immune.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by AndrewThrowaway on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:16AM (#22433960)

I would say that it really dismisses smoking as a big factor then.

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by dredmorbius on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:25PM (#22435417)

I wouldn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22435408

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by oefrha on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:20AM (#22433991)

The percentage of severe cases among smokers is definitely higher, although the sample size is small.

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