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Originally Posted by haertig
"By age" is really the only way to handle things, since age is the biggest factor in predicting outcome from the disease.
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https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.21.0051
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A cross-sectional study of 64,858,460 patients across 547 health care organizations reveals that having an intellectual disability was the strongest independent risk factor for presenting with a Covid-19 diagnosis and the strongest independent risk factor other than age for Covid-19 mortality.
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Old age means you're more likely to
die from it, but intellectual disability increases the risk of getting it to begin with.