Friday, 13 March 2020

How the coronavirus is deadliest for the over-80s and how patients with underlying health problems

Daily Mail
The study did not break the data down into age brackets or gender for each condition. Therefore it is not known, for example, how a 55-year-old man with high blood pressure would fare compared with a 65-year-old woman with diabetes. The killer virus sweeping the globe can infect anybody, but those with more severe illness and those who ultimately die tend to be elderly or suffer from another underlying illness."

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