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Well, there seems to be a tendency to identify 1 comorbidity (or complicating situation). But that misses the forest. I wonder at our inability to distinguish cases (and their trajectories) from deaths (and their history). Focusing on any single comorbidity will bias you to thinking COVID-19 is varied or complicated. What we need to do to understand COVID-19 as its own illness is to study those *without* comorbidities.

This blurb hints at the real problem fairly well:

"2. What are the common comorbidities associated with severe COVID-19 in US?
[...] Of 184 fatal cases, 94% were among persons with one or more major comorbidity."
From: https://ari.ucsf.edu/news-and-events/news-alerts/covid-19-task-force-updates

But this is nothing new and not at all surprising. One's prognosis for *any* life threatening condition centers around what *else* is going on. Even in something as obtuse as chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, or cancer, your likelihood of surviving or developing coping strategies depends fundamentally on what *else* is going on in your life. If anything, it looks to me like COVID-19 is the comorbidity for those *other* things.


On 4/20/20 10:30 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> There are apparently a large set of silent spreaders, and then in-between cases like this:
> 
> https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/entertainment/nick-cordero-coronavirus-leg-amputation-trnd/index.html    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/health/coronavirus-diary-sickness-brooke-baldwin/index.html
> 
> It's all over the place in terms of severity.    No objection that baseline health and access to healthcare are major factors, but it isn't like all 80 years are struck down.  


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