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Jen Herman 🌪️ Profile picture
Jen Herman 🌪️
@JukeBaRosh
Assoc Prof of Biochemistry & Biophysics | Transparency & rigor in scientific process | Accelerates on turns | more Bacillus & science content @rosh_ba
Apr 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1 approach to understanding #covid19 infection is to examine co-morbidities & ask what's common?

Most prevalent Cov19 co-morbs:

1)↗️age
2)Hypertension
3)Diabetes
4)Cardiovascular disease
5)Kidney disease
6)Chronic respiratory disease (esp COPD)
8)Cancers
9)BMI>40
10)♂️>♀️


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 These are diverse diseases & increasing age technically not a disease at all. However, there is at least 1 factor in common among all of the co-morbidities identified thus far:

INFLAMMATION