[Freedom4US]

No, the initial reports sometime in maybe January or February 2020 were claims that former smokers were being hit especially hard all out of proportion and dying by the Chinese virus when they did contract the infection. I remember this vividly, because I wasn't sure what to do when my temperature was into triple digits.

[Mears]

Tha Guardian had an article June 2020 about some French doctors using nicotine patches on COVID patients.

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