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An early preprint from the team of China’s leading expert Zhong Nanshan tagged smokers and non-smokers among the 1099 cases they analyzed. 85.4% supposedly neve
by oefrha 7y ago
An early preprint from the team of China’s leading expert Zhong Nanshan tagged smokers and non-smokers among the 1099 cases they analyzed. 85.4% supposedly never smoked, with 14.5% of those cases severe. So it’s not like non-smokers are very much immune.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...
- AndrewThrowaway 7y agoI would say that it really dismisses smoking as a big factor then.
- oefrha 7y agoThe percentage of severe cases among smokers is definitely higher, although the sample size is small.
- dredmorbius 7y agoI wouldn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22435408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22435408