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What happened as I distinctly remember figures from February and March showing smokers were remarkably underrepresented in covid cases?
by PeterStuer 6y ago
What happened as I distinctly remember figures from February and March showing smokers were remarkably underrepresented in covid cases?
- iso1210 6y agohttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/23/smokers-four-times-less-likely-contract-covid-19-prompting-nicotine/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/23/smokers-four-tim... > The institute tested almost 700 teachers and pupils of a school in Crépy-en-Valois in one of the hardest-hit areas in France, as well as their families. The “highly accurate” tests found that only 7.2 per cent of smokers from among the adults tested were infected while four times as many non-smokers, some 28 per cent, were infected. > “Thus, current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2.”