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To understand who’s dying of COVID-19, look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases

from STAT

To understand who’s dying of COVID-19, look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases STAT While early studies of who was dying of COVID-19 identified risks such as obesity and having diabetes, there is a growing realization that those initial conclusions might have been misleading, obscuring a more significant explanation. As researchers pull back their lens from individuals to population-level risk factors, they’re finding that, in the U.S., race may be as important as age in gauging a person’s likelihood of dying from the disease. READ MORE

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