I just turned 70 a week ago. My chances of making it another ten years dropped from 90% to 77% due to that one birthday!! Merde, indeed!
Obviously the real world doesn’t work like that. Why in the world would the calculator use ten-year age blocks instead of your actual age? That is ridiculous.
Also, why are critical things like hypertension and BMI not on the list of comorbidities? These seem to be the most important ones for surviving a COVID infection.
Obesity is definitely a huge factor, metabolic syndrome and Diabetes are markers. Interestingly enough one of the proven benefits of reducing is an improvement in gut flora.
One of the things I’ve noticed about medicine is a lot of times they treat symptoms with drugs. High blood cholesterol or blood pressure, or here, different gut “bugs”. Maybe that will work, but it seems to me in this situation, losing the poundage means all those things will take care of themselves without the need for any drugs in the first place.