Re: being elderly IS a co-morbidity
To class everyone over a certain age as anything, let alone, as having a co-morbidity, is ignorant, insulting, and statistically unfounded.
News flash - most of us healthy oldsters put more than half of those under 60 to shame, as a good percentage of them would love to have our blood pressure, heart rate, and other indicators of good health.
Any chance you’ll apologize for being an ass?
The numbers are the numbers. 75% of those over 65 have hypertension, treated or not. Add diabetes and dementia and you get way up around 90%. These are all on the comorbidity list for Covid.
You may have missed the point. The death odds are about age. The media always wants to tack comorbidities on there, but that’s redundant. If you’re old, as I am, as most I know are, there will be a comorbidity. There is no reason to list it as a separate risk factor when 90ish% over 65 have one.
Factoid: 54% of folks 60+ take 4 or more daily medications. They ain’t doing that for fun.