That group also was only 1.4% smoker, while china-normal in 2015 was 27.7% (almost all of whom were men). I wonder if people worried they’d get worse care if they admitted to respiratory co-morbidities?
Right now I expect they just used hospital admission forms. If I was self-reporting 5 pages of medical history while I’m critically ill I’d probably skip some fields. Interesting that they did find high rates of diabetes etc though.
Data point: There were no asthma patients among a group of 140 hospitalized COVID-19 cases in Wuhan.
But nobody had other allergic diseases either. No hay fever? Seems curious.
Allergies and asthma are rare in China and other poorer countries. The standard explanation I’vev head is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
That group also was only 1.4% smoker, while china-normal in 2015 was 27.7% (almost all of whom were men). I wonder if people worried they’d get worse care if they admitted to respiratory co-morbidities?
Right now I expect they just used hospital admission forms. If I was self-reporting 5 pages of medical history while I’m critically ill I’d probably skip some fields. Interesting that they did find high rates of diabetes etc though.