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Doctors have more exposure to stressors of the immune system. They get sick and injured surprisingly often; while they know how to avoid exposure and injury and

Doctors have more exposure to stressors of the immune system. They get sick and injured surprisingly often; while they know how to avoid exposure and injury and how to treat themselves, they cannot help but work in places like hospitals where they are constantly exposed. Additionally, air quality is worse in that area compared to where you likely live. Really, treat this like a really bad flu season. It will be bad, but it is much worse for some demographics than others.

nate_meurer 7y ago
It's also quite possible that these doctors were smokers. Chinese doctors smoke at least as much as the general chinese population, which already suffers the highest per capita smoking rates in the world. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519549/ - Tobacco smoking among doctors in mainland China: a study from Shandong province and review of the literature