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Global study shows deadly convergence of chronic disease, COVID-19 – CIDRAP

The comprehensive study is geared toward flagging countries that have a heavy chronic disease burden and thus are more vulnerable to a greater COVID impact.

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An ongoing modeling study and multiple analyses of the disease burden in 204 countries and territories reveal a dangerous combination of rising rates of preventable chronic diseases that increased vulnerability to COVID-19 and ineffective public health responses that failed to stem the pandemic.
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, the most comprehensive known study of its kind, published yesterday as a special issue of The Lancet, details the burden of 369 diseases and injuries and analyze…

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