Important! Largest study yet on #Covid_19 fatality shows top risks:
1. Age, BY FAR the highest
2. Cancers of the blood
3. Male
4. Obesity
5. Diabetes
I will say it again: Aging is a disease & it is treatable. Yes, treatable. 1/n #healthcare tinyurl.com/yahsd3vq @bengoldacre
1. Age, BY FAR the highest
2. Cancers of the blood
3. Male
4. Obesity
5. Diabetes
I will say it again: Aging is a disease & it is treatable. Yes, treatable. 1/n #healthcare tinyurl.com/yahsd3vq @bengoldacre
Striking finding: smoking makes little difference to #Covid_19 fatality, so it can’t explain bias in male deaths (What can? Hint: males age faster). 2/n
For smoking, error bar on the hazard ratio chart is close to zero, so smoking is probably not protective either, as some have speculated. tinyurl.com/y8l2qpom 3/n
Controversial claim: being non-white is an independent risk factor (genetics?), but that’s very hard to separate from other socioeconomic factors. Comments on the study under @bengoldacre’s tweet today are mixed. 4/n
Note that these are independent risk factors. If you are 65 and healthy, you are still at risk of dying from #COVID19. Why? It could be that your cells have lost information. But lost information is recoverable, like a reboot. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Death Star plus Hazard Ratio for #Covid_19. Genius. 👏
