Looking at how many COVID-19 deaths involve co-morbid conditions.
This report gives an idea of case fatality rate of various conditions:
CFR was elevated among those with preexisting comorbid conditions—10.5% for cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for diabetes, 6.3% for chronic respiratory disease, 6.0% for hypertension, and 5.6% for cancer.
This report has base rates of each condition in a sample of ~1000 patients.
Hypertension has a base rate of 14.9%, so 0.9% of patients had hypertension and died. At the time of that first report the total CFR was 2.3% so hypertension was present in 39% of deaths.
Correspondingly diabetes is present in 23% of deaths.
Cardiovascular disease (grouping 3 conditions in the second paper) is also present in 23% of deaths.
Obviously there’s probably a huge overlap between hypertension and CVD but even accounting for that hypertension is a large factor.
Cancer is present in 5% of deaths.
Some comorbid conditions are not in both papers so I can’t calculate those.
The no comorbidity CFR is listed at 0.9% (39% of deaths). This is much higher than the news reports I’ve heard seem to suggest, although I guess “generally unhealthy” probably doesn’t come up as a comorbid condition in the papers.
I’m not sure if there are better sources for this stuff.
Looking at how many COVID-19 deaths involve co-morbid conditions.
This report gives an idea of case fatality rate of various conditions:
This report has base rates of each condition in a sample of ~1000 patients.
Hypertension has a base rate of 14.9%, so 0.9% of patients had hypertension and died. At the time of that first report the total CFR was 2.3% so hypertension was present in 39% of deaths.
Correspondingly diabetes is present in 23% of deaths.
Cardiovascular disease (grouping 3 conditions in the second paper) is also present in 23% of deaths.
Obviously there’s probably a huge overlap between hypertension and CVD but even accounting for that hypertension is a large factor.
Cancer is present in 5% of deaths.
Some comorbid conditions are not in both papers so I can’t calculate those.
The no comorbidity CFR is listed at 0.9% (39% of deaths). This is much higher than the news reports I’ve heard seem to suggest, although I guess “generally unhealthy” probably doesn’t come up as a comorbid condition in the papers.
I’m not sure if there are better sources for this stuff.