Posted on 04/11/2020 3:35:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Nearly 90 percent of U.S. coronavirus patients who have been hospitalized have underlying health problems, or comorbidities, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), released Wednesday, focuses on hospitalization rates and characteristics of patients hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus disease, or COVID-19.
CDC reports among 1,482 patients from 14 states who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in March, 74.5 percent were 50 years of age or older, and 54.4 percent were male.
According to Dr. Shikha Garg and associates, during the month of March, among 178 (12%) adult patients with data on underlying conditions, 89.3% had one or more underlying conditions:
[T]he most common were hypertension (49.7%), obesity (48.3%), chronic lung disease (34.6%), diabetes mellitus (28.3%), and cardiovascular disease (27.8%).
Medscape provided a bar graph of the data regarding underlying conditions of those hospitalized for the infection caused by the novel coronavirus that originated in China:
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Looks like hypertension has taken the lead from Diabetes.
Vitamin D enhances the immune system, and is an anti-viral for several viruses, including influenza.
One of the reasons for seasonality of infectious diseases is that blood levels of vitamin D increase dramatically during the sunny months.
I strongly suspect that a common factor among those hospitalized is a deficiency in vitamin D, and for those who have light cases, a sufficient blood concentration of vitamin D.
before we go too overboard about comorbidities, it probably is true that at least 90% of patients admitted for medical reasons on a normal day have comorbidities....mostly with the elderly, because we tend to pile up health issues as we age..
Yah but,
Orange Man wasn’t President whe they got those other “Things”
/sarc
It’s the 10 percent that don’t have underlying conditions that end up in the hospital that have me really concerned. We only have 14 cases here in my county, but one of them in the hospital is only 27 with no underlying conditions. On person east of me in the Dallas/Fort Worth area was only 30 hospitalized with no underlying conditions.
High blood pressure and a fever (generally caused by inflammation) are a bad mix. More pressure on the heart to circulate blood (oxygen) to all vital organs. Can lead to heart attack, stroke, even in rare cases busted blood vessels.
Makes sense. No surprise here. Almost half of our population have more than one underlying chronic condition. 2/3 of our deaths are caused by five chronic diseases. So yes - getting covid-19 will hit these people harder.
But this doesn’t mean they were dead anyway. People with treated chronic conditions can live long lives.
So if you are over 50 and have one of these comorbidities, looks like you need to self quarantine for the next three months.
Trying to get the old sick people off the rolls.
One death so far in my county. Wednesday a 56 yo female passed. She also had leukemia
I take 5,000 units of D-3, daily, plus get sun, while I’m having a couple Marlboros. (Don’t smoke in my condo anymore since I rehabbed it.)
Does hiv count as an underlying condition? If it does, can the bean counters find out about it? How about rheumatic fever as a child?
May have to do with medication. ACE inhibitors are suspected of allowing the viruses more complete access to AC Enzymes in the lungs. As one who takes lisinopril this worries me. But my doc says not enough evidence to change what works.
I just read something that people living north of 37 degrees parallel get almost no Vitamin D from sunlight, even in summer. It is too refracted by the atmosphere. It also could be why flus thrive in winter when, when lack of sunlight slows metabolic process of D. Vitamin D can be had through eating various types of fish, and egg yolk, mushrooms. It’s just something to throw into the mix, food for thought.
Barry Osambo’s butt buddy, Billy Bob Ayers, wants 25,000,000 Americans dead; doesn’t specify the age group:
I am officially a FluBro as of this moment.
I wonder if those two patients you cite have comorbidities that the reports are unable or unwilling to identify.
In the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Just like the regular old flu.
About 80% of Americans have some underlying condition.
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