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The largest test to date confirms that race, ethnicity, age, and gender would likely increase a person’s chances of dying from Covid-19.
By Katherine J. Wu
An analysis of more than 17 million people in England — the largest study of its kind, according to its authors — has pinpointed a bevy of factors that can raise a person’s chances of dying from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
The paper, published Wednesday in Nature, echoes reports from other countries identifying the elderly, men, racial and ethnic minorities and others with underlying physical fitness disorders among the most vulnerable populations.
“This highlights a lot of what we already know about Covid-19,” said Uchechi Mitchell, a public fitness expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago who did not participate in the study. “But much of the science has to do with repetition. The duration of the examination alone is a strength and it is mandatory to continue to document the disparities.
Researchers extracted a wealth of anonymous knowledge by adding medical records of approximately 40% of the UK’s population, collected through the UK National Health Service. Of the 17,278,392 adults in a row for 3 months, 10,926 died from headaches similar to those of Covid-19 or Covid-19.
“Many past paintings have been directed at patients coming to the hospital,” said Dr. Ben Goldacre of The University of Oxford, one of the study’s authors. “It is useful and important, however, we seek to have a transparent concept of dangers as a man. Our initial group is literally all.”
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