> unless cardiac function is correlated with covid susceptibility Chronic heart disease is a factor associated with higher risk of COVID-19-related hospital de

> unless cardiac function is correlated with covid susceptibility Chronic heart disease is a factor associated with higher risk of COVID-19-related hospital death, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v... gives a hazard ratio of 1.27 adjusted for all the many other factors they looked at. So yes, it looks to me like at least some of what this Ford study measured was indeed that difference between people with pre-existing conditions dying at a higher rate than people without.