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Vaping teens, young adults are 5-7 times more likely to get COVID-19 - Business Insider - Business Insider
Aug 12, 2020 1 min, 22 secs

Young people may be less likely to get severe COVID-19 cases, but health experts have long warned that vaping can make them more vulnerable.

New evidence from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that teenagers and young adults who vaped were five to seven times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than their non-vaping peers.

"Teens and young adults need to know that if you use e-cigarettes, you are likely at immediate risk of COVID-19 because you are damaging your lungs," Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a professor of pediatrics at Stanford who was a coauthor of the study, said in a press release.

Though older people are more likely to develop severe coronavirus symptoms like pneumonia and shortness of breath, young people began to fill hospitals as the US reopened.

The Stanford researchers behind the new study set out to investigate vaping's potential as a risk factor among these young, otherwise healthy people.

A diagnosis was seven times more likely for people who both vaped and smoked cigarettes.

Research from the University of California at San Francisco indicates that one in three young adults ages 18 to 25 are vulnerable to severe COVID-19 infection.

Smoking was by far the most prevalent risk factor for young people, the UCSF study found.

One study of more than 32,000 Americans found that people who vaped regularly were more than 1.3 times as likely as non-vapers to develop lung disease, including asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.

Tobacco smokers were 2.6 times as likely, and people who both smoked and vaped were 3.3 times as likely to develop lung disease as people who don't do either at all?

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