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Researchers know what people the coronavirus is more likely to kill - BGR
Jul 10, 2020 1 min, 8 secs
But researchers know exactly what kind of people SARS-CoV-2 is more likely to kill, and it’s those people who should take all the precautions available to them to prevent infection.

It’s the same types of existing medical conditions, combined with age, sex, and race that make COVID-19 more dangerous for more people.

The researchers looked at health data for 17 million people in England, which makes it the largest of its kind.

The researchers found that patients older than 80 were at least 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those in their 50s.

The study also looked at the effects of race and ethnicity on COVID-19-related deaths.

Roughly 11% of patients were identified as nonwhite, and the researchers found that black and South Asian people were at higher risk of dying than white patients.

The researchers also removed variables like chronic heart disease to focus solely on the effects of race and ethnicity.

The heart condition is a risk factor for COVID-19, but it’s also more prevalent among black people.

But black people are also more likely to experience stress and be denied medical service, so the disparity in heart disease may itself be influenced by racism.

Some criticized this approach, as ignoring the heart disease risk could lead to wrong conclusions about the relationship between race and ethnicity and COVID-19 deaths.

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