The preexisting conditions of the coronavirus pandemic – Ars Technica

Those same people are also more likely to have the chronic conditions that the Global Burden of Disease singles outbecause of poverty, lack of universal health care, lack of access to higher-quality food, and a public health system defunded, by some calculations, to the tune of $4.5 billion before COVID-19 was even a twinkle in a bats eye. Your risk of dying if you have no underlying comorbidity is less than 0.1 percent, Galea says. People with lower socioeconomic position and people of color ha…

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