About 40 percent of U.S. adults are at risk for severe COVID complications

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/about-40-percent-u-s-adults-are-risk-severe-covid-n1234698

Certain chronic health problems, such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, are known to be more prevalent among COVID-19 patients sick enough to be hospitalized. A study published in April found that among people hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York City, 57 percent had high blood pressure, 41 percent were obese and just over a third had diabetes.

To determine the prevalence of those health conditions nationwide, the CDC authors used statistical modeling based on the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a telephone survey of nearly 500,000 U.S. adults. The survey included data on people living in every county in the nation.

When the study authors looked at each county, they found wide health disparities in the rates of five chronic conditions: obesity, Type 2 diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In some counties, about 1 in 4 people had at least one of those chronic conditions. That number rose to about 2 in 3 in other counties.

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1. When I came down with small pox at age 8

in India, I had only 30% chance to survive! Because mortality rate with small pox was a whopping 30%.
It was not just damage to some organs, it was total death. My mother told me I was hanging on to life by a thread.
I had ugly high fevers and dime size blisters all over my 8 year old body. After 72 years I still have marks on my face from the disease.

There have been so many lethal diseases in history of mankind. Plague, Cholera, yellow fever, ebola, H1N1, Resistant TB etc.
Human beings are cursed with horrible diseases. In India I remember seeing lepers begging on the streets. It is worse than horrible.

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2. KR!